117: Patrick Alley | Blood Diamonds, Kleptocrats, Very Bad People & The Investigations Of Global Witness
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What Was Your Life Like Up Until the Moment You Colluded in the London Pub?
I left school, I didn't go to university. And I got a job in the construction industry which was the job I hated from the first moment as a kind of middle manager and a firm that supplied construction equipment. It was there that I met Shaimin Guchins, Simon Taylor, who I was to go on to found global witness with a couple of years after that. So can you explain what your life was like up until the moment when you and a mates colluded in the London pub to create global witness? Yeah, sure. You know, you didn't have any special connections, no particularly amazing special talents, no significant access to money, contacts and network. It
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