Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

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Taub, Jennifer. "Review | Trump among the kleptocrats". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved 29 November 2020.

Kazakh-based mining giant Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) has denied ‘very serious’ allegations made in a book about so-called ‘dirty money’, which the company says means that it had three people murdered ‘to protect its business interests’. The book details the birth of kleptocracy and the links between dirty money and the UK. It was bought in a " substantial deal" by publishing director Arabella Pike in 2018 from Sophie Lambert at C&W. Caroline Kean, a partner at Wiggin, told the Gazette that Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation’s case against Tom Burgis was an ‘egregious form of lawfare’, describing it as ‘one of the most blatant’ examples of a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) she had ever seen.Tom Burgis, a reporter for the Financial Times, is certainly an impressive investigator. He works hard to explain how myriad financial institutions, from the Bank of New York to Merrill Lynch and HSBC, have tried to deceive regulators and wash the ill-gotten gains of countless dictators. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. Kleptopia review: power, theft and Trump as leader in Putin's own image". the Guardian. 25 October 2020 . Retrieved 29 November 2020. He added that the meaning of the words complained of was that the three deaths‘are suspicious and the cause of death in each instance remains an open question which merits further investigation’.

With his election as president, as Burgis puts it, Trump helped to construct a new “global alliance of kleptocrats”. Their whole goal is the privatization of power, and they control “the three great poles” – the US, China and Russia. Arabella Pike, publishing director at HarperCollins imprint William Collins, said law firms representing clients in apparent anti-SLAPP cases need to ‘find out where the money is coming [from] to pay their fees’.On 9 September, 2021, it was reported that ENRC had taken legal action against HarperCollins and The Financial Times, with respect to claims made within the book and subsequent reportage. [3] The claim was dismissed in March 2022. [8] See also [ edit ] The first hearing, on 8 th February, was adjourned due to a medical emergency shortly after it began. ENRC is also suing Kleptopia’s publisher HarperCollins, alleging that certain chapters of the the book – which is said to mention ENRC more than 250 times – mean there are at least ‘strong grounds to suspect’ it had two former employees and a geologist killed. In our new world of alternate facts, corruption is “no longer a sign of a failing state, but of a state succeeding in its new purpose”. The new kleptocrats have subverted their nations’ institutions, “to seize for themselves that which rightfully belonged to the commonwealth”. You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side.