Gidi Pols (1993) is an investigative journalist. He is specialized in economic topics. Such as payday loans and the debt industry. He is part of The Investigative Desk since 2020. Besides that he works for the economy desk of the NOS and writes on regular basis for Trouw. His investigative articles were published in de Volkskrant, De Groene Amsterdammer, Trouw and De Correspondent. One of the investigations led to an episode of the investigative journalism radioshow Argos.
Footwear company Crocs bypasses European and US efforts to end a widely used form of tax avoidance in the Netherlands. Due to interventions by both
Dozens of large arms manufacturers use the county as a conduit for financing their sales deals. The Netherlands plays an important role as a financial
Local offices of the Red Cross accepted more than 3 million dollar in donations from tobacco producer Philip Morris. This goes against the instruction of
The Investigative Desk has discovered that until 2015 a remarkable amount of money from cigarette manufacturers flowed to Switzerland via the Netherlands. After that year,
The Investigative Desk is an independent platform for investigative journalism, focusing on large international industrial sectors such as tobacco, food and chemicals, finance, energy, pharmaceuticals and health care, defence and security.
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