How To Lose Seven Billion Pounds
 
Channel 4

WINNER, Wincott Prize for Outstanding Financial Journalism 2018

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'The gurning face of unchecked capitalism, vaunting ambition and greed.'

London Times

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Carillion - a sprawling giant of a company that sucked up billions of pounds of tax payers' money with promises to build schools and hospitals. But Carillion had a dirty secret - a vast billion pound cash black hole in its finances carefully hidden from its investors. In 2018 the company spectacularly collapsed, leaving thousands unemployed and a trail of chaos in its wake.

 

Why despite warnings did the British government continue to pour public money into the black hole? And jus how much did company Directors know? 

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Now for the very first time whistleblowers reveal what really happened inside the company that was "too big to fail"... until it did. They expose a scandal that reaches into the very heart of British government, and the thousands whose lives were wrecked by the ultimate story of corporate corruption.

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'Told this sorry tale with righteous anger.'

Daily Telegraph

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'Should be repeated week in, week out, lest our memory and anger fades.'

London Times

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CARILLION - POST DOCUMENTARY

NEWS UPDATES

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KPMG boss says Carillion auditing was ‘very bad’ as firm is fined record £21m

Guardian Oct 12th 2023

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Ex-Carillion finance chief given 11-year company director ban

Guardian July 3rd 2023

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