{"id":32515,"date":"2022-01-14T03:27:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/the-men-who-sell-football-al-jazeera-investigations\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T03:27:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:27:19","slug":"the-men-who-sell-football-al-jazeera-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/the-men-who-sell-football-al-jazeera-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Men Who Sell Football | Al Jazeera Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This documentary reveals how English football clubs can be bought by convicted criminals and become vehicles to launder dirty money. The football dealmakers \u2013 who link foreign buyers with British football clubs &#8211; tell undercover reporters how they can hide a criminal\u2019s money and identity behind offshore trusts and use \u201cdirty tricks\u201d to deceive the football authorities. Chris Samuelson, an offshore finance expert and Keith Hunter, a former Scotland Yard detective, also offer our fictitious criminal a new identity by purchasing an EU passport for 10m euro. Our undercover reporters reach the brink of striking a deal for the criminal investor to buy Derby County FC, one of England\u2019s oldest football clubs. The Men who Sell Football is the prequel to the Bafta-nominated documentary, The Cyprus Papers Undercover, released in October 2020. Samuelson\u2019s lawyers say that he was never told about Mr X\u2019s criminal convictions. Had he known, he would have ended discussions immediately. Hunter says that he strongly disputes most of our findings. <\/p>\n<p>@AJIUnit<br \/>\n#SellingFootball<\/p>\n<p>Find more about our content at ajiunit.com If you want to provide a tip on serious wrongdoing and corruption, contact the Investigative Unit on +974 5080 0207 (WhatsApp\/Signal), or find other ways to reach out on aljazeera.com\/tips.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ldgTCXpDEgk\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This documentary reveals how English football clubs can be bought by convicted criminals and become vehicles to launder dirty money. The football dealmakers \u2013 who link foreign buyers with British football clubs &#8211; tell undercover reporters how they can hide a criminal\u2019s money and identity behind offshore trusts and use \u201cdirty tricks\u201d to deceive the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[100,104,1577,105,91588,91595,91596,91592,91599,86,88,1101,91589,91593,16514,91597,91598,91590,91602,91600,91601,113,91594,112,91591,6461,3110],"class_list":["post-32515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european","tag-al-jazeera","tag-al-jazeera-english","tag-al-jazeera-investigations","tag-aljazeera-english","tag-aljazeera-investigations","tag-bundesliga-match-fixing","tag-calciopoli","tag-corrupt-football","tag-corrupt-football-matches","tag-corruption","tag-cyprus-papers","tag-cyprus-passports","tag-efl-championship","tag-fixed-football-matches","tag-football","tag-football-corruption","tag-football-corruption-documentary","tag-football-news","tag-football-scandal-documentary","tag-football-scandals","tag-football-scandals-oh-my-goal","tag-investigations","tag-italian-fixing-scandal","tag-jazeera","tag-match-fixing","tag-men","tag-sell","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}