Gold Mafia (2023)

Undercover reporters pose as gangsters with up to a billion dollars of black money that needs to be cleaned. They gain remarkable access to members of Africa's Gold Mafia and film closed-door meetings with crime bosses. A senior African ambassador offers to launder $1.2 million using the cover of his diplomatic bag. Criminals offer lucrative deals to clean over $100 million through government gold export schemes. At the center of their operations is southern Africa's biggest laundromat, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. Gold Mafia, a four-part series by Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit, examines how society's obsession with gold underwrites a global shadow economy. The undercover team infiltrates rival gangs that turn dirty cash into gold, which is then sold around the world. Highlighting Gold Mafia's crimes, Paul Diamond and Stanley Shane, as key figures in the corruption scandal reveals how deeply entrenched the fraud is within the system. Through thousands of confidential documents and exclusive interviews with whistle blowers from within criminal organizations, investigators obtain the blueprints of billion-dollar money laundering operations that service the political elite. This investigation leads to the highest offices in southern Africa.