Bridges fall. Aircraft doors rip open mid-air. Children are poisoned by food that was never tested. Factories collapse, ferries sink, pipelines explode — and somewhere, an inspector has already stamped the paperwork: approved. In this explosive exposé, industry insider Stéphane Sakoschek rips the mask off one of the world’s least visible yet most powerful industries: the global cartel of testing, inspection, and certification. Far from safeguarding the public, these firms rig tenders, buy governments, launder kickbacks, and hide behind glossy accreditations and billion-dollar insurance schemes. From Brussels boardrooms to African ports, from fake tenders to offshore accounts, Unchecked reveals how the system is designed to fail — and profit from that failure. Case studies spanning Benin, Angola, Mozambique, and Europe expose the same choreography: intermediaries, bribes, rigged contracts, phantom inspections, and, always, collapse. Terrifying, meticulously researched, and written with the urgency of a thriller, this book shows how corruption in inspections is not a series of scandals — it is a business model. And its cost is paid in lives, in debt, and in trust. If you thought safety certificates meant protection, think again.