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The sellers of diseases

Green marketing: the big make-up

Tax havens: the little secrets of big business

Toxic clothes

Neuromarketing: your brain interests them

The programmed death of our devices

Crazy finance

Sugar: how the industry gets you hooked

The tax evasion scandal: revelations on the billions we are missing

Foot business : investigation on an omerta

The crops of shame

Diesel: the dangerous French exception

Professional training, the great detour

Tobacco industry: the great manipulation

The unmentionable secrets of our cell phones

When shareholders attack your jobs

My president is on a business trip

Health: the law of the market

The business of fear

Marketing: the secret strategies

Chemical products, our children in danger

Employees at bargain prices: the big scandal

Tax havens: the heist of the century

Climate: the great bluff of the multinationals

Doping: still going strong

Food industry: business versus health

Public contracts: the great slippage

Razzia on wood, the furniture giants' promises in kit form

Cash Impact: the new Panama Papers revelations

Pedophilia in the Church: the weight of silence

Work, your merciless universe

Cash impact: Diesel: are the manufacturers fooling us?

The "Paradise Papers": at the heart of a global scandal

Cotton, the back of our T-shirts

Dairy products: where does the money go?

Cash Impact: Pesticides: our health in danger

Water: scandal in our pipes

Affair Sarkozy - Gaddafi: suspicions on millions

Plastic: the great intoxication

Luxury: the shocking underside

Implants: all guinea pigs?

Industrial fishing: big fish in troubled waters

HLM companies: moderate rents for excessive business

Multinationals: hold-up on our fruits and vegetables

Help, my boss is an algorithm

Cannabis, the multinational laundering company

Who benefits from our taxes?

Equality between men and women: balance your salary

Public services: freedom, equality, profitability?

Our dearest banks

Alcohol: the strategies to make us drink

Our personal data is worth its weight in gold!

DSK, investigation on a man of influence

Waste: the great illusion

Freedom, health, inequality

Ehpad: time for a reckoning?

Is this how it works at McDonald's?

You will have heard of the CAP. The Common Agricultural Policy is the second largest budget in Europe, with 55 billion euros paid out each year. And, above all, France is the first country to benefit from it, with 9 billion euros per year.

But, strangely, this money does not always go to farmers. In France, some farmers receive nothing, while large groups pocket several million euros in subsidies per year.

The CAP is therefore inequitable, since half of the subsidies allocated go to 20% of the beneficiaries, while 80% have to share the rest.

Agriculture: where did Europe's billions go?

A never-ending heat wave, huge fires, torrential rain. This summer, our country has experienced a season from hell. With global warming, natural disasters are multiplying, especially droughts that attack and crack houses. In France, 10 million homes could be affected.

Journalist Mathieu Robert investigated this invisible scourge and discovered that the French are increasingly badly compensated. Insurance companies very often refuse to reimburse the damage. Cash investigation will tell you the story of the obstacle course of these victims of the drought, who are becoming more and more numerous.

Droughts, floods: who will pay the bill?

In 2019, the French gave five billion euros to charities. And companies have understood the importance of this for their image. Their donations to NGOs are constantly increasing: 3.5 billion euros this year. But this generosity of large groups may have a hidden side. "Cash Investigation" has discovered that in order to conquer this manna, some associations sometimes forget their missions. Misuse of donors' money, conflicts of interest, lack of calls for tender, the malfunctions are numerous. Yet there is a label, Don en confiance, which is supposed to control them. But there is often a gap between the promise and the reality.

Companies, sponsorship, associations: dangerous links

In 2021, according to figures from the French National Health Insurance, 72% of the amount of fraud detected will be committed by health professionals. Elise Lucet and her team investigated dental centres. Some of these groups seem to have become cash machines billing for useless or fictitious procedures. Repentant dentists testify. Former patients tell of being mutilated. Liberal nurses seem to be the health professionals who commit the most fraud. Some of them artificially inflate the bills of insured persons, especially the oldest and most vulnerable patients. Does the social security system manage to recover the money from fraud? With the introduction of third-party payment, the Assurance Maladie must now reimburse health professionals within a very short time. Even if it means carrying out few controls.

Social security hold-up: who benefits from fraud?

In recent months, some multinationals have been making super profits. Total, for example, currently earns 73 million euros per day. Profits that would finance the energy transition and the fight against global warming. But what about these fine green promises? Elise Lucet and the Cash Investigation team investigated the French oil company's mega project in Uganda and Tanzania.

Superprofits: multinationals in green

Since the creation of "Cash Investigation" ten years ago, 59 issues have been broadcast, in all more than 100 hours of programming. Let's look back at some of the highlights of this adventure.

10 years of disclosures

Organic alert!

Porn, a ruthless business

The wonderful world of the ultra-rich

Sick work, sick of work

Energy, covid: crisis profiteers

Easy money: the false promises of influencers

McKinsey, a firm at the heart of power

Who benefits from immigration?

Drug shortages: are pharmaceutical companies laying down the law?

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Cash Investigation gives new life to investigative investigations by tackling in each new issue different subjects concerning the business world (drug industry, ready to wear, tax havens, neuromarketing, planned obsolescence ...) but also to the managers themselves.