Rotman Documentary Insights presents "Bribe, Inc."

In the shadows of the global oil industry, a company with a jet-set lifestyle and greasy palms operates with total impunity – until a whistleblower named “Figaro” reached out to Australian journalist Nick MacKenzie with enough insider intel to take them down.

Bribe, Inc. takes us on a documentary journey in which a team of award-winning reporters investigate the Ahsani family, who run a company called Unaoil from the tiny principality of Monaco.

Unaoil reached across the globe to pay multi-million dollar bribes in oil rich states. The beneficiaries of these ill-gotten gains include some of the biggest companies in Europe, North America and Australia. The files that Nick obtained from “Figaro” turn out to be the biggest exposé of bribery and corruption in modern history. The information they uncovered was enough to launch investigations across a dozen countries, and put the Ahsanis in the crosshairs of some of the most powerful law enforcement agencies in the world, including the American FBI and the British Serious Fraud Office.

Nick and “Figaro” follow the money and chase down the criminals – a manhunt spanning the globe from Iraq to Monaco, Rome, London, Australia, and the US. As the criminals at the centre of this case begin facing the courtroom, the question remains – will there ever be justice for the world’s biggest bribery scheme?

Peter Klein, Director & Producer

Alexandra Wrage, President & Founder, TRACE

Peter Klein is a three-time Emmy Award-winning director and producer who has created dozens of hours of documentary programming during his 30-year career. As a founding producer of New York Times Video News International, he was one of the pioneers of small-format vérité documentary filmmaking. He went on to shoot year-long documentaries for ABC News Nightline, investigative films for PBS Frontline, and policy-changing global exposés for CBS News 60 Minutes. He created the Emmy-nominated History Channel investigative documentary series Beyond Top Secret, served as senior producer of the serialized CBS documentary program I-Witness, and founded the non-profit Global Reporting Centre. Most recently he was Executive Editor of Investigations at NBC News.

Alexandra Wrage is president and founder of TRACE, a non-profit international business association dedicated to anti-bribery, compliance, and good governance. She is the author of several books on bribery and host of the popular weekly podcast Bribe, Swindle or Steal. She was featured in the Netflix docuseries FIFA Uncovered, as well as two BBC audio productions investigating FIFA. She is a guest blogger for Forbes and has been featured on the BBC, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, NPR, and Reuters.

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• The event will be hosted at Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Ave. Toronto, ON M5S 1J5). Your registration fee includes a seat in the theatre for the film screening and moderated Q&A and attendance at the reception.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Canada