The Dark Money Files

By Graham Barrow and Ray BlakeBusiness News Education Business News

The Dark Money Files episodes

December 29, 2025 Crime on the high street - part one
In the first of a two part, end of year episode, we explain how we helped with a major BBC investigation into crime on the high street, involving the sale of illicit cigarettes and vapes, modern human slavery, people trafficking, tax evasion, corruption and money laundering.
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17 min
December 08, 2025 A fine fanfare - Coinbase and JP Morgan SE
We examine two recent final notices issued by two different regulators relating to two quite different enterprises and find a surprising amount of commonality in their thinking.
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17 min
October 24, 2025 The Dark Money Files meets (Episode 1)... The Laundry
In the first of a new, occasional series, in which we sit down and chat to fellow anti-financial crime professionals, we kick off with Marit Rødevand from Strise to talk about AI and other new fangled gizmos.
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30 min
October 09, 2025 Policing the corporate landscape - the role of The Insolvency Service
The UK Insolvency Service does a lot more than just oversee insolvencies and, in a recently published five year strategy document, they outlined some ambitious future goals which we thought were well worth a conversation.
So we had one!
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22 min
August 13, 2025 The highs (and lows) of PEP classifications
The FCA recently published new guidance specifically in relation to UK PEPs which we decided needed a closer look. So we did!
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20 min
July 26, 2025 Where there's a will...
In this episode we explain how we supported a major BBC investigation into a Hungarian organised crime group which was systematically forging wills and stealing the assets belonging to the estate from under the noses of the true beneficiaries.
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21 min
May 29, 2025 Transparency and trust issues: the secret life of property
In this episode, we chat about a recently published report by Transparency International (see: https://www.transparency.org.uk/news/trust-issues-tackling-final-frontier-secret-property-ownership) and how it impacts on our ability to identify the true ownership of real estate in the UK (and elsewhere).
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19 min
April 14, 2025 Trigger warning!
We bring you our latest deep dive into the world of crazy company incorporations and weird worldwide coincidences by way of North London, New Zealand and a much loved British sit-com.
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18 min
March 16, 2025 The sharing of suspicion
SARs!
Search and rescue services?
Subject access requests?
Sudden acute respiratory syndrome?
No - suspicious activity reports! That's what we are talking about this time. And there's a lot more to them than you might think.
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18 min
February 08, 2025 Don't let mules make an ass of your firm
In this episode we look at the FCA's latest thematic review of the National Fraud Database and money mule account detection tools and summarise what we think firms can take from it and what actions they might consider taking in response.
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20 min

About The Dark Money Files

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A series of podcasts which explain to a non-technical audience how "Dark Money" (e.g. money laundering, corruption, bribery, tax evasion) enters the financial system and infects everything it touches.