Welcome to assignment on the BBC World Service. I'm Simon Cox and I'm in Malawi with a story of intrigue and secrecy in the world of international aid.

So what were you saying about that car? You think that?

Yeah, yeah, there are some guys. We were watching us and they were like phoning us. They are looking at us and they are still behind us. I'm in a car heading out of Blantyre, Malawi's biggest city and I'm being followed.

Yeah, I can see.

So that's only 10 minutes now, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's see where they're going.

So let's see we're at the roundabout.

Let's see if they follow us at the roundabout.

While the attention, I'm investigating a global charity called DAP.

It stands for development aid from people to people.

It's well regarded as doing valuable humanitarian work, and international donors have been lining up to give it money,

tens of millions of dollars in the last decade.

I'm totally angry because it is affecting all those people like for instance Africans.

This is Patrick Gateka, the guy who noticed we were being tailed.

He's lean and rangy with with short- neat dreadlocks. He used to work for DAP in Malawi and

is here to help us expose a dark secret about the charity.

They are asking for money outside that they are going to help Africans in Africa who are suffering

who need this aid, who need this help.

But in the wrong run, money is not going to wait where it is supposed to work.

DAP is arguably under the control of a cult-like organization whose senior leaders are on the

run wanted by Interpol.

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