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title: Corruption Files
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#### Created in honor of TRACE’s 20th anniversary, *Corruption Files* delivers riveting firsthand reports from the frontlines against corruption and reveals the real personal impact of financial crime.

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#### EPISODE 1

Azerbaijani journalist [Khadija Ismayilova](https://twitter.com/Khadija_Ismayil) found herself being blackmailed, thrown in prison and later placed on probation for simply doing her job: alleging corruption among the ruling family. In the first episode of our *Corruption Files* series, Khadija tells her story.

 

 

#### EPISODE 2

How did a U.S.-headquartered management consulting giant’s venture in South Africa end with a public inquiry into the Zuma administration and millions of dollars in returned fees? Economist and political scientist **[William Gumede](https://twitter.com/william_gumede?lang=en)** explains McKinsey’s role in “the wasted decade.”

 

 

 

 

#### EPISODE 3 - English

A career civil servant-turned-whistleblower in Spain found herself battling a nationwide political machine, facing death threats and hiding in a foreign country for years. This is [Ana Garrido’s](https://twitter.com/anagarridoramos?lang=bg) story.

 

 

 

 

#### EPISODE 3 - Spanish

Una funcionaria pública de carrera, convertida en denunciante de actos ilícitos en España, se encontró luchando contra una maquinaria política nacional, enfrentando amenazas de muerte y escondiéndose en un país extranjero durante años. Esta es la historia de **[Ana Garrido](https://twitter.com/anagarridoramos?lang=bg)**.

 

 

 

#### EPISODE 4

 

**[Johannes Stefansson](https://twitter.com/johannesstefans?lang=en)** alleged that the company he worked for paid bribes to gain access to Namibia’s fishing grounds. Years later, he reflects on the Fishrot case—and his suspected poisoning.

 

#### EPISODE 5

After reporting U.S.-sanctioned mining magnate Dan Gertler’s alleged illicit financial network, two bank auditors-turned-whistleblowers came under threat and were sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. **[Gabriel Bourdon-Fattal](https://twitter.com/bourdonfattal?lang=en)**with The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa tells their story.

 

 

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