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***OUT TODAY*** After three extraordinary years following a thread that led from Conservative HQ to Putin's St Petersburg via Kathmandu and a royal Scottish retreat, my new book CUCKOOLAND is out. It's the tale of a world where the rich own the truth. Our world. 👇🧵
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I’m very happy to say that, contrary to the wishes of certain oligarchs, Kleptopia, my book on how dirty money is conquering the world, will remain available in all good bookshops. Kleptocracy is the greatest threat we face. At the very least, we should be able to read about it.
Well this is interesting:
@tomburgis
- author of Kleptopia - how dirty money is conquering the world - has just won the defamation action brought against him by one of the companies that features in his rather gripping investigation:
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A London company owned by oligarchs from the former Soviet Union is suing me and my publisher
@HarperCollinsUK
over Kleptopia, my book about how dirty money is conquering the world. The first hearing was recently delayed but will now be at the High Court this Weds, March 2
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Hugely grateful for all this support for Kleptopia. Also on behalf of my courageous sources, who helped me report on the fight of our times. The kleptocrats of the world are uniting. In Ukraine they use tanks. In Zimbabwe they use torture. In the west, their weapon is money.
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It is more vital than ever to stop oligarchs using law firms to silence the press. So I’m delighted to say that the latest attempt to do that against me and the
@FinancialTimes
just failed 1/
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Here’s an irony of war. The UK’s position as the global hub for dirty money puts its government in a uniquely strong position to hurt Putin’s kleptocracy - and kleptocrats everywhere - by attacking financial secrecy. (1/4)
#Ukraine
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To my delight I’m joining the
@guardian
’s legendary investigations team. Formidable reporters helmed by
@PaulLewis
.
I start in spring after writing a book about the truth and who gets to tell it.
DMs are open, contact details on my website: tell us what needs to come out.
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The
@nytimes
story on
#TrumpTaxReturns
says of Russia: "the tax records revealed no previously unknown financial connection — and, for the most part, lack the specificity required to do so". That's no surprise because. Here's why. (1/11)
The Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump extending over more than two decades.
It shows his finances under stress, beset by losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.
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The UK is calling time on particular oligarchs from one kleptocracy (Putin’s). What it is not doing is calling time on London’s role as the global hub for dirty money. So the “enablers” - lawyers, bankers, PRs, spies, lobbyists, lords - can just find new kleptocrats to serve.
Sanctions like this were the sort of thing Alexei Navalny spent years crying out for.
“Greedy lawyers have been living off [Russian money] for decades. MPs can’t do anything because Britain is run in such a way that it loves dirty money.”
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*** NEW INVESTIGATION: SILENT WITNESSES ***
This white Audi pulled out of a Johannesburg car park one evening in 2016. Inside was André Bekker, a convivial geologist. Minutes later he would be dead. (1/11)
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Life in Kherson is like a slow-motion war crime. Every day, the Russians across the river fire hundreds of shells, bombs and rockets. Every day, civilians are killed and hurt. I was there last week, and this is what they said
@guardian
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*SCOOP* Nawaz Sharif, the former leader of Pakistan, is living on Park Lane despite being sentenced to jail back home for corruption. Now his successor has written to Priti Patel saying she is “duty bound” to deport him.
@FT
via
@financialtimes
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For three years I've followed a trail: from Mayfair to Kathmandu to Putin's St Petersburg to the heart of the British establishment. Tomorrow the book is out. Cuckooland: Where the rich own the truth. Here's an extract on the Tory money machine.
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Kleptopia goes to court. This Tuesday, Feb 8, the UK High Court will hold a preliminary hearing in the libel lawsuit that a London-registered company owned by oligarchs from the former Soviet Union has brought against me and my publishers
@HarperCollinsUK
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SCOOP Conservative chair Ben Elliot discussed with two ambassadors a donor’s plan to take a sensitive role in the party’s Middle East relations.
What Elliot didn’t tell them was that the donor was also a private client of his firm Quintessentially.
@FT
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There would be costs to dismantling the secrecy system that has stretches out from the City of London through its outposts such as the British Virgin Islands. But the UK now faces a choice: whose side is it on?
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Been in Kherson this week, a Ukrainian city on the frontline.
@elonmusk
has claimed a lack of insurgency by Ukrainians under occupation shows they want to be part of Russia. I've been hearing a different story: of resistance despite the sheer terror of the Russian occupation. 1/3
Recently
@elonmusk
stated there were no Ukrainian protests in the occupied territories. Our activists are everywhere on the ground - here in Melitopol, Yalta, Mekeevka, Luhansk. We protest! We resist! Join us!
#ElonWeAreHere
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Ben Elliot owns a “concierge” service for the super-rich that he says runs on favours. He is also co-chair of the Conservative Party, overseeing fundraising. A feud between a donor and an ex-MP gives us a glimpse into this world of cash, access and power.
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*** NEW
@FT
INVESTIGATION ***
Mohamed Amersi calls himself “a renowned global communications entrepreneur, philanthropist and thought leader”. He's given some of his fortune to the Conservatives - a fortune made in part in Putin's Russia. (1/9)
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Thanks again for the magnificent support for Kleptopia. My superb publisher
@HarperCollinsUK
and I will be in the High Court at 1030 tomorrow with our terrific legal team for the first hearing in this case.
A London company owned by oligarchs from the former Soviet Union is suing me and my publisher
@HarperCollinsUK
over Kleptopia, my book about how dirty money is conquering the world. The first hearing was recently delayed but will now be at the High Court this Weds, March 2
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EXCLUSIVE: Mohamed Amersi is a major donor to the Conservatives. That buys him access to the top of government.
But where does his money come from?
Millions came from a company owned by a senior member of Vladimir Putin’s regime, my sources say.
@FT
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This is the key: “Putin wound up as the top billionaire among all the other billionaires—or at least the one who controls the secret police.” If you haven’t yet, read
@anneapplebaum
’s essential piece on the imperial kleptocrat
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This is welcome but there’s a massive flaw in the plan. Perhaps it is being missed because it is too obvious. It’s the global financial secrecy system (the largest part of which is the City of London and its post-colonial outposts). How can you freeze an asset you can’t find?
⚡️EU unanimously agrees to freeze assets of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.
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This brutal heat and Putin’s ability to wage brutal war in Ukraine have the same root: fossil fuels. This is surely the year when we realise that our addition to hydrocarbons is not only the cause of climate breakdown but also feeds the kleptocrats who are breaking down democracy
The terrifying truth: Britain’s a hothouse, but one day 40C will seem cool | Bill McGuire
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If Putin gets to keep the Ukrainian territory he's seized, millions of Ukrainians will be condemned to live under the occupation. My latest
@guardian
investigation reveals how this gangster regime works. (1/4)
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From the latest edition of
@PrivateEyeNews
, a tale of some very rich people (with very pricey lawyers) who would rather you didn’t read my new book KLEPTOPIA.
Should you decide that, actually, you’d quite like to, it’s OUT NOW in all good bookshops
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And I must thank the partner in crime who is standing with me here, just as she has stood with me - and with a great many other authors trying to tell the truth to power - all along, my indefatigable publisher
@ArabellaPike
of
@WmCollinsBooks
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Look at his allies. Putin, Mohammed bin Salman, Kim Jon-un, Duterte... They all cultivate the image of the nationalist strongman while presiding over the looting of their nations. This is what I've called Kleptopia: the growing alliance of those who rule through corruption (9/11)
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Because the rule of law is a weapon they wield and which they fear to see in the hands of their enemies, kleptocrats need above all to maintain the immunity from prosecution that comes with high office. Elections? They must be won at all costs.
(11/11)
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Sanctions alone lose their bite when corrupt regimes can use the financial secrecy system to dodge them. And London’s “reputation management” law firms are on hand to target reporters who dare to look into the sources of their clients’ wealth. (2/4)
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Bekker’s body was found on the back seat of the burned out Audi. A private investigator got nowhere for a while. Then he heard that Bekker had been going around raising doubts about a mining deal involving a multi-billion-dollar London-listed corporation called ENRC. (2/11)
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In what might perhaps be regarded as something of an own goal, the lawsuit against Kleptopia brought by a London company owned by oligarchs who appear in the book has helped it hit
#1
on Amazon (until just now, when it was edged out by a worthy rival,
@HEYDUGGEE
)
@WmCollinsBooks
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@tomburgis
- author of Kleptopia - how dirty money is conquering the world - has just won the defamation action brought against him by one of the companies that features in his rather gripping investigation:
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In office, it's way simpler for Trump. Kleptocrats can pay him directly by taking rooms at his Washington hotel. (8/11)
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*** NEW INVESTIGATION: A MONEY PIPELINE ***
He's a billionaire. Son-in-law of a Kazakh dictator. Director of Gazprom.
Documents I’ve seen indicate he was also the beneficiary of a secret scheme to divert profits from big state pipeline contracts. (1/9)
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If you want a longer read, see my new book 'KLEPTOPIA: How dirty money is conquering the world' out now from
@HarperCollinsUK
(11/11)
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It was the financial secrecy system that helped the Kremlin begin its incursion into eastern Ukraine years ago - using secretive corporate takeovers to capture steel mills. As ever, the key, even as the tanks roll, is to follow the money. (3/4)
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My latest
@FT
investigation, a year in the making. A hidden struggle over money, power and the truth
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Trump's approach was, I've been told, "wilful obliviousness". The paper trails (such as the one in the tax records the
@nytimes
has found) would show only income from licensing deals with the developer, not where the developer's money came from. (7/11)
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There was the Trump SoHo, the crowning achievement of his partnership with two characters from the former Soviet Union: Tevfik Arif and Felix Sater (also, as it happens, a spy). Here's an excerpt from my new book KLEPTOPIA that tells that tale. (4/11)
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And there was the Trump Panama. That one,
@Reuters
has reported, became a success with the help of a broker who was in business with a drug-money launderer and a couple of ex-Soviet crooks. (6/11)
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Bekker was not the first person from this perilous world to die in suspicious circumstances. The previous year, in May 2015, James Bethel (left in this picture) and Gerrit Strydom were found dead at a motel in Springfield, Missouri. (3/11)
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Always nice to have a new reader …
I might not have read, or even heard of,
@tomburgis
if ENRC hadn’t sued. Now I’m in.
#Kleptopia
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In the UK, there’s a different way to silence those who ask questions about the rich. You don’t need an Arctic penal colony. Just the High Court. Even the threat of legal action, and its vast costs, deters legitimate journalism. On
@LBC
I told
@carolvorders
how “lawfare” works.
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There was the Trump Toronto. The Russian-born developer who paid Trump for his name had made his fortune from a Ukrainian steel mill that he sold through a deal in which he agreed to make a secret $100m payment to representatives of Putin's Kremlin. (5/11)
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... to developers who would put his name on top of buildings built with money from the kleptocracies that had taken over the former Soviet empire. Trump's cut would run to many millions. He boasted about these projects in a letter to the
@WSJ
(3/11)
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The secrets of the Conservative money machine. An extract from my new book Cuckooland: Where the rich own the truth. It's out on Thursday. A story unlike any other I've reported. At its heart - a fight to control reality itself. Pre-order:
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This is not a week for celebration. But three years to the day after I reached the remote Kazakh town where survivors of a massacre and torture spoke to me of the real cost of corruption, Kleptopia, my book about how dirty money is conquering the world, is a UK bestseller. 1/
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Can I now send the funds?’: secrets of the Conservative money machine
An extract from my new book Cuckooland: Where the rich own the truth. A tale of money, power and the fight for reality itself.
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When, around the end of last century, banks finally despaired of his endless commercial failures,
@realDonaldTrump
found a new way to make money. He would use The Apprentice to play the business genius he wasn't, then rent out that brand ... (2/11)
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ENRC is owned by three central Asian oligarchs: Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov, aka the Trio. They vigorously challenge any suggestion that there are grounds to suspect them of wrongdoing in connection with the alleged corruption or the deaths. (8/11)
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The law is becoming a weapon in the US election.
That's what happens when kleptocracy starts to take hold.
Here's why.
(1/15)
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Here’s my
@FT
investigation that the oligarchs’ London company, using top UK law firm Taylor Wessing, tried to stop you reading. 2/
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Happy
#WorldBookDay
Well this is interesting:
@tomburgis
- author of Kleptopia - how dirty money is conquering the world - has just won the defamation action brought against him by one of the companies that features in his rather gripping investigation:
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Bethel and Strydom had held senior positions in the Africa unit of ENRC. That unit is at the centre of a high-stakes corruption case – and they were potential witnesses. (4/11)
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True: the UK is becoming a hostile environment for journalism. As
@skcoughtrie
puts it here: "The reputation managers’ goal is not necessarily to win in court, but rather to intimidate, to consume the financial and psychological resources of the target, so they simply give up."
I’m far from only journalist facing proceedings. UK is becoming an increasingly hostile environment for both British & foreign journalists.
@CatherineBelton
,
@tomburgis
,
@RewcastleBrown
to name but 3.
And there’s no doubt it is chilling reporting.
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*EXCLUSIVE* Here's Volodymyr Saldo. He's Putin's puppet governor in the occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson. He's also the named owner of a UK company - one that was set up after he was put under sanctions.
@guardian
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Those who knew James Bethel, Gerrit Strydom and André Bekker know they moved in a dangerous world. They want to discover whether that cost them their lives.
Read the full investigation:
@financialtimes
(10/11)
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Thanks for all messages of support. We're in court 14 from 1030am tomorrow.
Kleptopia goes to court. This Tuesday, Feb 8, the UK High Court will hold a preliminary hearing in the libel lawsuit that a London-registered company owned by oligarchs from the former Soviet Union has brought against me and my publishers
@HarperCollinsUK
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There are too few investigative units and we need them more than over. Good to see that this fine one is expanding.
Thrilled to announce that the Guardian’s investigation team is expanding. We’re recruiting several new journalists, including a deputy investigations editor and a number of correspondents. Full details here, thread to follow.
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EXCLUSIVE: A businessman who boasted of using spies trained by the CIA, Mossad and MI6 for private espionage operations was invited to a dinner with the home secretary after the company he ran gave £70k to the Conservatives. Scoop with
@Direthoughts
(1/4)
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EXCLUSIVE An ex-MP tried to warn about a Conservative donor’s Russian past. What she didn’t know was that the donor was a private client of party chair Ben Elliot’s company serving the super-rich.
@FT
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The lawsuit has been withdrawn after a judge magnificently threw out a related attempt to censor Kleptopia, my book about how dirty money is conquering the world. Alexander Machkevitch and Patokh Chodiev, the oligarchs in question, appear in the book at length. 3/
Well this is interesting:
@tomburgis
- author of Kleptopia - how dirty money is conquering the world - has just won the defamation action brought against him by one of the companies that features in his rather gripping investigation:
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Tomorrow I and others who have faced these campaigns of “lawfare” will give evidence in parliament to
@CommonsForeign
. It is heartening that MPs see the need for change. 5/
🗓️ TOMORROW @ 2:30PM: The
@CommonsForeign
will be receiving oral evidence from FPC's
@skcoughtrie
@CatherineBelton
@ArabellaPike
&
@tomburgis
on the use of strategic lawsuits against public participation
#SLAPPs
🖥️ Watch live:
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The local authorities in Springfield announced the pair had died of malaria. Five years on, medical records I’ve obtained cast serious doubt on that claim. Leaving the question: if malaria did not kill them, what did? (5/11)
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Lest we forget that facilitating the flow of dirty money from Putin’s Russia is far from the only danger of continuing to allow financial secrecy…
@ChloeNCornish
@tomburgis
It’s no accident that London is the base of numerous companies behind the
#BeirutBlast
, all of them controlled by Russian citizens/residents. Will
@10DowningStreet
enact legislation that will enable us to pursue the culprits behind the smokescreens?
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The protests in Kazakhstan are starting to look like the biggest threat to the ruling kleptocracy since the end of the Soviet Union.
The best way to understand the regime is to understand the story of Mukhtar Ablyazov. Some call him a master thief. Others a freedom fighter.
Ablyazov's story is one of the four interwoven tales I tell in Kleptopia. Here's an extract from the audiobook: the terrible night in Rome his wife and daughter were kidnapped (3/3)
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If we are to resist the march of kleptocrats like Putin, we must unmask their corruption. That needs, above all, a free press. Britain’s most resolute publisher,
@ArabellaPike
, stood with me and
@CatherineBelton
when our books came under legal attack.
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More piecemeal sanctions from the UK, albeit on a much bigger scale. Dramatic action against financial secrecy across the board would have a vastly greater effect - not just against Putin but against kleptocrats everywhere and their henchmen
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The High Court judge Mr Justice Nicklin’s ruling throwing out the libel suit against Kleptopia is a blistering read. Pars 38 + 39, on corruption, are particularly interesting 4/
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For those seeking a copy of Kleptopia, there’s more stock coming to Amazon in the next few days. Meanwhile plenty at
@Waterstones
and of course your local bookshop. To order online while supporting independent bookshops, there’s
@bookshop_org_UK
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If you’re in favour of a free press, or if you believe that scrutiny of the powerful helps keep societies healthy, then here is some cheering news. There’s now a realistic prospect that the UK’s legal system will defend itself against “lawfare” that censors the media 1/
The justice secretary, Dominic Raab, has today announced proposals for a costs cap and three-stage test to tackle at an early stage intimidatory legal actions (Slapps) against reporters and publishers
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Here’s the story so far (a thread)
EXCLUSIVE An ex-MP tried to warn about a Conservative donor’s Russian past. What she didn’t know was that the donor was a private client of party chair Ben Elliot’s company serving the super-rich.
@FT
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It’s a tale from the inner sanctum of British democracy: the place where money and power meet. After the Greensill scandal and wallpaper-gate, the Conservatives’ money machine is once more in the spotlight. (9/9)
@maxseddon
@SebastianEPayne
@FinancialTimes
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“No one has written a book like Cuckooland.” I’m beyond grateful to
@johnarlidge
for his
@thetimes
review of my new book. After 3 years of digging into how the rich own the truth, and all manner of threats, to be Sunday Times book of the week is wondrous.
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Strange how otherwise perceptive pieces like this so often ignore the most important thing that the Russian and Iranian regimes have in common: they’re both raging kleptocracies (fed by oil) that will kill at home and abroad so they can go on looting
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The fight of our times is between kleptocracy and democracy, from Kyiv to Washington. Two moves to break our complicity in corruption:
1) Stop buying fossils fuels, the lifeblood of kleptocrats
2) End financial secrecy
My thoughts in
@ObsNewReview
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I’m writing a new book. About the truth - and who gets to tell it. So after 16 years as a member of the Africa corps then the investigations team I’ve left the
@FinancialTimes
. Long may its fine journalists report without fear or favour.
One old fave
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The regimes in this new order may look very different: communists and capitalists, nationalists and socialists. But they are united in their central endeavour: they are kleptocrats seeking to hoard wealth and power. And they have a big ally in the US
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Once again, a powerful Russian close to Putin deploys the UK legal system to attack the free press. In this case, the invaluable
@EliotHiggins
of
@bellingcat
Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as “Putin’s chef” because of his catering contracts with the Kremlin, has filed a libel claim in the High Court against Eliot Higgins, the British founder of the website
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It started three years ago, when I heard about a fight inside the Conservative Party between a rich donor and an ex-MP - a fight over the truth… A pleasure to tell the story behind my new book Cuckooland to
@carolvorders
on her
@LBC
show. Order your copy:
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In London, the Serious Fraud Office team running the criminal investigation into ENRC’s alleged bribery and fraud in Africa was alarmed by the deaths. (6/11)
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For more on the book, the legal attacks, and how the conflict in Ukraine is the new front line in a war between kleptocracy and democracy, here’s a podcast I just recorded with the
@spectator
’s
@questingvole
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This is the big danger in sanctions. Use them too much and the outcasts form an alliance - a shadow global economy. We’ve seen it already with eg Venezuela-Iran deals. The risk is hastening a new order led by the Politburo in Beijing and the Kremlin
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Some cheering news. Another UK judge declines to let the courts be used as sticks for the rich to beat journalists with.
It hasn’t sunk in yet but…SOME NEWS.
I am so profoundly grateful & relieved.
Thank you to the judge, my stellar legal team & the 29,000 people who contributed to my legal defence fund. I literally couldn’t have done it without you 🙏🙏🙏
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It started back in 2021 when I heard that a rich Conservative donor called Mohamed Amersi had hired lawyers to go after a former MP who'd raised questions about his past, including how he made his money in Russia and elsewhere.
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This is a big moment for the free press. Lawfare censors vital information about some of the world’s most powerful people. The task now is to ensure that reform breaks the power of sheer wealth to stifle the scrutiny on which democracies depend
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My latest
@FinancialTimes
investigation, ten months in the making. The tale of the Trump Toronto - and what it means to have a US president who has long exchanged his family name for money with a murky past, no questions asked.
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Serious Fraud Office boss Lisa Osofsky now faces a big decision: whether to bring charges, seek a settlement or drop the case. (9/11)
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The fear caused among investigators and witnesses by these deaths is magnified by not knowing who or what to be afraid of: those who wish to keep ENRC’s affairs secret, any rivals who might wish to harm the company, or figures from the risky places where it does business. (7/11)
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EXCLUSIVE: Senior Conservative party officials worked on plans to hand over its entire membership database for a commercial venture that promised to make tens of millions of pounds. My scoop on the "True Blue" app, with
@Direthoughts
@guardian
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"The murders and kidnappings don’t happen here, of course: our bankers have clean cuffs and manicured nails."
@GeorgeMonbiot
calls my new book 'KLEPTOPIA: How dirty money is conquering the world' "terrifying".
It's OUT NOW
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A lot of oligarchs, kleptocrats, dictators, moneymen, spies and crooks have tried to stand in the way of this book.
Well, it's coming out on Thursday. Kleptopia: How dirty money is conquering the world.
Pre-order with a discount:
#kleptopia
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Kleptopia: How dirty money is conquering the world.
My new book, five years in the making, is out on September 3.
"You won't be able to put it down"
@MishaGlenny
"Read it now"
@robertosaviano
Order your copy now:
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Five years after I met a man who knew a Swiss bank's secrets, the story of how dirty money is conquering the world is out on Sept 3 (UK) and Sept 8 (US)
"You won't be able to put it down" Misha Glenny
"Read it now" Roberto Saviano
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This is important. A free press is a vital defence against kleptocracies like Putin’s and it is under attack. Important to remember, though, that most “lawfare” never comes to court - it succeeds long before that by intimidating media into dropping stories
It is outrageous that oligarchs are using English courts to try & silence journalists like
@carolecadwalla
@tomburgis
&
@CatherineBelton
Thats why
@DavidDavisMP
and I tabled amendments to the
#EconomicCrimeBill
to end this abuse
@guardian
has the story
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So to summarise, KLEPTOPIA is
"a must-read"
@washingtonpost
"stranger-than-fiction"
@Reuters
"hair-raising stuff"
@mrjamesob
"fascinating"
@paullewismoney
"never ever to be read, do please shut up" various kleptocrats, oligarchs etc
out now
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Not long after, Amersi himself gave a remarkable interview to
@Gabriel_Pogrund
about how the wealthy buy their way into the British establishment. He called this "access capitalism".
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The great
@brhodes
and I talked about Ukraine, Trump, the power of corruption and how some oligarchs tried to censor Kleptopia, my book about how dirty money is conquering the world.
If you want to understand what oligarchs are and how they get and hide their money, listen to this interview with
@tomburgis
. It comes after
@brhodes
and I walk through the latest in Ukraine, including the debate over MiGs and bioweapons.
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Kazakhs are dying on the streets as a regime that has spent a quarter of a century enriching itself uses violence to maintain control. Here’s the inside story of how raw power becomes vast wealth.
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