Tracking Down the Most Corrupt Bank in the World

Alex Campbell, deputy investigations editor for Buzzfeed UK, discusses his recent article, co-written with Tom Warren, “Revealed: The Secrets Of One Of The World's Dirtiest Banks And Its Powerful Western Protectors.” They investigated FBME, one of the world’s most corrupt banks and reveal how some of the planet's “most prestigious accountants and lawyers used their powers to keep the bank in business.” The US government has accused the bank of “allowing money laundering on a vast scale for terrorists, drug traffickers, repressive dictators, organized crime groups, and financiers for the Syrian regime,” among other things.