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How the west sold out to the oligarchs A captivating account of financial skulduggery in London reveals how far the City has fallen Financial Times journalist Tom Burgis’s first book,  The Looting Machine, was about the worldwide networks that enable the plunder of African natural resources.  Kleptopia, his follow-up, is an even more ambitious endeavour tackling the post-Cold War birth of global kleptocracy and the subterranean links it establishes between authoritarian states and the west...

How the west sold out to the oligarchs A captivating account of financial skulduggery in London reveals how far the City has fallen Financial Times journalist Tom Burgis’s first book,  The Looting Machine, was about the worldwide networks that enable the plunder of African natural resources.  Kleptopia, his follow-up, is an even more ambitious endeavour tackling the post-Cold War birth of global kleptocracy and the subterranean links it establishes between authoritarian states and the west...

MONEYWEB app instead? Registries showing the details of beneficial owners will be open for scrutiny by law enforcement. 00:01  The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The US is second only to the Cayman Islands as the most secretive jurisdiction in the world, according to the 2020 Financial Secrecy Index. Image: Bloomberg The US Senate has signed the death warrant for anonymous companies with its recent passing of the Corporate Transparency Act, by a veto-proof majority of 84 to 13. The bill ...