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🗓️ 9 November 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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David Grossman on the trail of Namibia’s missing tax millions revealed in the massive leak of financial data known as the Paradise Papers.
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0:00.0 | That's a type of checks that the people stay. |
0:09.0 | So there's a one-story house with a corrugated iron roof, concrete built walls with windows and then in the |
0:18.2 | yard in front of it there's what how many shacks? About six shacks. They're made of wood. Just bits of recycled wood |
0:28.0 | really aren't they? They're not. Yes. A lot of them burn very easily so a lot of the people lose all their possessions. If you look at |
0:36.2 | the back there in that yard it's full. There's lots of people there. There's not much space. |
0:41.0 | It's not much space. Just shacks built up. You're listening to assignment on the BBC |
0:46.1 | World Service I'm David Grossman and I'm in Namibia on the trail of Africa's |
0:50.4 | missing tax millions. A huge leak of financial data shows us in |
0:55.2 | unprecedented detail how big multinationals get away with shifting their profits out |
1:00.6 | of the developing world. Right now I'm driving around Walvis Bay. |
1:05.0 | It's a part of Namibia that tourists don't much visit. |
1:08.0 | Despite the best efforts of a flock of flamingos on a sand spit offshore, |
1:12.0 | it's hardly picturesque. |
1:14.4 | A big industrial port filled with towering freighters and trawlers flanked by dozens of high-smelling |
1:20.6 | fish plants. |
1:22.3 | Although the fishing industry has never been busier, the town's infrastructure |
1:26.2 | has been overwhelmed by the needs of its growing workforce. |
1:30.3 | Everywhere you look, there's a problem with housing this is all shacks that is where people |
1:34.3 | staying yeah there is just row upon row of small wooden built roughly built shacks many with just sheets of plastic on the roof |
1:48.8 | People come here to work for a while and they stay in stay in in checks like that because the government is unable to provide proper housing to the people. |
1:59.0 | Avram is a middle manager in a fish plant. |
2:02.0 | It's not his real name. This is a small community and he fears repercussions if he speaks out. |
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