Description An investigative journalist\'s deep dive into the corrupt workings of the world\'s kleptocrats.
He lives in London..
Bullough is a writer for the Guardian, and his work has been published by British GQ, The New York Times, and the BBC.
Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won\'t because it\'s actually about them." --John le Carr , author of A Legacy of Spies About the author OLIVER Bullough is the author of two non-fiction books about Russian hiStory and politics: The Last Man in Russia, and Let Our Fame Be Great, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in the UK and won the Cornelius Ryan in the US.
It isn\'t too late to change it."If you want to know why international Crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you.
This is the Story of wealth and power in the 21st century.
And find out how heroic activists around the World are fighting back.
Meet their awful children.
Meet the kleptocrats.
Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations, attacking the foundations of many of the world\'s most stable countries.
Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland--the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich.
And then some bankers had a bright idea.
If he kept stealing, the money would just pile up in his house until he had no rooms left to put it in, or it was eaten by mice.
He could buy himself a new car or build himself a nice house or give it to his friends and family, but that was about it.
Once upon a time, if an official stole money, there wasn\'t much he could do with it.
Kleptocracies, governments run by corrupt leaders that prosper at the expense of their people, are on the rise.
From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in London and Manhattan, something has gone wrong.
Description An investigative journalist\'s deep dive into the corrupt workings of the world\'s kleptocrats
