up the addiction to oil, and any european court ruling could be years away, so the campaigners say they ll keep on appealing to the world s conscience, to protect the planet and theirfuture. nick beake, bbc news, norway. the information commissioner s office, the body that regulates data privacy in the uk, has asked the facebook whistle blower, frances haugen, to provide documents to support her allegations that the social media platform harms children s mental health. facebook firmly denies such claims but the information commissioner, elizabeth denham, wants to see if the company has breached uk law. she s been talking to our media editor amol rajan. she s the former facebook employee turned whistle blower whose revelations are reverberating around the world. earlier this month, frances haugen handed over internal company documents to us lawmakers which she claimed were evidence that the trillion dollar company harms children s mental health,
they bought a building secretly owned by the aliyevs for £66 million, giving the notorious family a profit of £33 million. it looks like the crown estate has helped one of the world s most notorious families to launder its cash. what s the reaction? the crown estate said it conducted checks required by uk law and did not establish any reason why the transaction should not proceed . but it is now looking into the matter . anyone else? well, there s the president of cyprus, whosaeown legal firm helped provide fake owners for a rich, russian client. the law firm of president anastasiades changed ownership details to staff members from the law firm. it looks like they were protecting the real owner. 0ffshore companies are not supposed to conceal owner that way. what has the president said? president anastasiades said our allegations were totally unfounded .
deals in the uk totalling more than £400 million. one of the deals involved the president s11 year old son getting ownership of a £33 million office block. one of the other properties is a bit awkward for the uk crown estate, the public body that looks after the queen s properties. they bought a building secretly owned by the aliyevs for £66 million, giving the notorious family a profit of £33 million. it looks like the crown estate has helped one of the world s most notorious families to launder its cash. what s the reaction? the crown estate said it conducted checks required by uk law and did not establish any reason why the transaction should not proceed . but it is now looking into the matter . anyone else? well, there s the president
some were paid the equivalent of hundreds of pounds a month. fss would meet informants in fast food restaurants like this one. they d dole out the cash to workers from rival factories. they d then sign the receipts and someone from bat to witness the payments. informants were paid to report what they saw at work, giving daily updates on production. this matters, because paying bribes in exchange for information like this appears to break uk law. and the emails confirm the payments were approved by local bat managers. bat in south africa, were they aware that you were doing all those things? they sat in most of the management meetings where these things were discussed, and the operational planning was discussed. is there any way that they could have thought that that was just a legitimate practice, that they didn t understand. ? no, no, not at all, not at all. so, they knew it was illegal? correct.
they d then sign the receipts and someone from bat to witness the payments. informants were paid to report what they saw at work, giving daily updates on production. this matters, because paying bribes in exchange for information like this appears to break uk law. and the emails confirm the payments were approved by local bat managers. bat in south africa, were they aware that you were doing all those things? they sat in most of the management meetings where these things were discussed, and the operational planning was discussed. is there any way that they could have thought that that was just a legitimate practice, that they didn t understand. ? no, no, not at all, not at all. so, they knew it was illegal? correct. i think it s appalling. it s easy to dismiss south africa or africa as being countries that don t