How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won

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The Guardian

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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It began as a routine investigation into a multinational called ENRC. It became a decade-long saga that has rocked the UK’s financial crime agency. Now new documents illuminate a case that has rewritten UK law and is set to end with a huge bill handed to taxpayers. By Tom Burgis. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:00.8	This article contains some swearing.
1:04.0	How oligarchs took on the UK Fraud Squad and won.
1:08.0	Written and read by Tom Burgess. Part 1, a body, a mine, a mystery.
1:21.1	Clement Jackson was at home by the South African coast, tending to the meat on his beloved
1:25.8	brai when the call about the body came. He found contentment at the barbecue. Bald with craggy features and prominent ears, he liked to impart the secrets
1:36.2	of a succulent lamb shank or the perfect tea bones to his children. They were grown up
1:40.9	with children of their own, but even as he approached 60,
1:44.0	Jackson was not ready to yield the tongs to them just yet.
1:50.0	Since Hart trouble brought an early end to his police career 20 years earlier, Jackson had worked as a private detective.
1:56.0	Born in 1959, just as Nelson Mandela was going on trial for treason, he'd followed his father into the force.
2:04.0	Jackson loved the sluthing, assembling a jigsaw of evidence.
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