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  • How I Trafficked Orangutans

    An ex-orangutan trafficker describes how orangutans are captured, bought and sold, the distances they travel to customers, and why there is such a demand.

    Hunters kill mother orangutans and steal their babies to supply to the exotic underground animal trade in Indonesia. The ex-trafficker describes the journey those babies make from their captors to buyers. They often travel via local bus routes, being packaged up and disguised in boxes, and transported across Indonesia.

  • The Horrors I Saw at Korean Private Schools

    An English teacher reveals the horrors of working at a notorious Hagwon school in South Korea, where staff and students are overworked to the point of breaking. The conditions are so bad that many teachers choose to “midnight run” – disappear in the night with no warning. After dealing with sexual harassment, constant CCTV monitoring, and verbal abuse, she decided to share her ordeal with the world. Watch more form this series: The Secret Hotel Sex Parties of the Mega-Rich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyzDxxQRSA&t=30s What the Gambling Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABj7peI_R2M I Was Sold At A Slave Market https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPFdTZp7Dw

  • Sex and Drugs Inside a Corrupt Rehab Clinic

    ‘We were always pressured to behave like Disneyland employees…in reality, it was complete chaos’ The Informer reveals what it was like to work in a corrupt rehab facility. The first red flag was being interviewed by someone under the influence, which the Informer quickly realized was a common occurrence. Patients were picking up on-site and staff were even having affairs with each other. Profit was constantly prioritized over patients, with serious consequences on their recovery.

  • The Secret Hotel Sex Parties of the Mega-Rich

    ‘I’ve seen the darker side of humanity’ A Front of House Manager reveals what working in a hotel for the super rich is really like. From hiring out the whole hotel for a ‘themed’ orgie to covering the tracks of staff sleeping with customers, the Informer details how the job can be demanding physically and emotionally. Blood, gore and semen stained walls are all part of the job. Informer is a series where we hear the anonymised confessions and insights of people on the inside of different industries, institutions and events.

  • The Dark Secret at the Heart of the Jehovah’s Witnesses

    The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an end-of-days Christian organisation who are known for knocking on doors and rejecting blood transfusions. However, they have also been subject to increasing scrutiny over their handling of child sex abuse cases within their congregations, and their treatment of victims. In this episode of Informer, we speak to a former Jehovah’s Witness elder who was abused as a child but didn’t report what had happened. As an adult, he felt a painful déjà vu when his own daughter told him she had also been abused.

  • The Dark Reality of Care Facilities

    “Society at large doesn’t think a huge amount about carers, until they need carers.” Carers are the backbone of the social welfare system, providing mental, physical and emotional assistance to extremely vulnerable people, such as those with dementia or severe autism. They’re often paid minimum wage to face excrement, physical resistance and even death on a regular basis, with little emotional support. In this episode of Informer, we meet a former carer who explains how a lack of funding and major understaffing fails everyone, and leaves the industry open to abuse.