As government investigators close in, Asiaciti realises it hasn't been keeping a close watch on some of its risky clients.
In this series finale, Mario Christodoulou traverses from Swiss mountaintop chateaux to a Nigerian coup d'etat, to find out exactly what money was secretly flowing through Asiaciti's products.
Then, he takes everything he's found to the man who built up the Asiaciti empire from nothing: Graeme Briggs.
The ABC reached out to every person named in this story, we received no response from Du Shuanghua.

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Folge vom 06.10.2021Untouchable Assets | Part 3
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Folge vom 05.10.2021Untouchable Assets | Part 2A rock concert ticket scalper and a controversial entrepreneur turn to Asiaciti for assistance. Using products from Graeme Briggs' company, they lock away their riches on a small Pacific island nation, out of the reach of authorities. But soon, Asiaciti learns it's got its own crisis to deal with: a global media scandal that threatens the company's very existence. Mario Christodoulou reports.
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Folge vom 04.10.2021Untouchable Assets | Part 1Graeme Briggs enjoys rugby, collecting Japanese fountain pens, and looking after other people's money. The problem for Graeme and his company Asiaciti is that among the many legitimate clients, some of them turn out to be corrupt politicians, fraudsters, and criminals. If that isn't bad enough, nearly two million files from his company's server have been leaked to journalists. So what's Graeme Briggs going to do now? Mario Christodoulou investigates.
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Folge vom 03.10.2021The scientists and shamans of psychedelic retreatsThere's a landmark project underway in Melbourne to find out whether psilocybin - the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms - can be used to improve end-of-life experiences. But many Australians have already turned to the underground because they're convinced psychedelics improve their mental health. Geoff Thompson investigates whether it's worth all the risks. This is a repeat of a program that aired in February 2021.