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sparkmann...An estimated £100 billion is laundered through Britain each year, and only £100 million is frozen by the authorities.
We don't just get the numbers. We get the names, all the details. The Kleptocracy Tour is fearless.
I've fuzzed the identities here out of care for the health of Fairfax's lawyers. You can say 'alleged' as many times as you like, but on the Kleptocracy Tour, we all know what we're talking about.
We're talking about a city with the highest concentration of dirty money in the world, our guide tells us.
However, he adds, London's role as a kleptocrat honeypot might be about to change – if the government has the intestinal fortitude to enforce some brand new laws.
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Like Hollywood but with dirty money, welcome to London's richest suburbs | The Sydney Morning Herald
For three hours, through heavy London traffic, a coach-load of journalists is taken past absurdly expensive mansions and flash apartments in the city's ritziest neighbourhoods: Chelsea, Kensington, Knightsbridge, Hyde Park. It's like one of those Hollywood tours where you trundle past the homes of celebs, pausing to snap photos of featureless gates. Except this is rainy London, and they're famous for all the wrong reasons...
↱www.smh.com.au
We don't just get the numbers. We get the names, all the details. The Kleptocracy Tour is fearless.
I've fuzzed the identities here out of care for the health of Fairfax's lawyers. You can say 'alleged' as many times as you like, but on the Kleptocracy Tour, we all know what we're talking about.
We're talking about a city with the highest concentration of dirty money in the world, our guide tells us.
However, he adds, London's role as a kleptocrat honeypot might be about to change – if the government has the intestinal fortitude to enforce some brand new laws.
Read more at: ... >>>
Like Hollywood but with dirty money, welcome to London's richest suburbs | The Sydney Morning Herald
For three hours, through heavy London traffic, a coach-load of journalists is taken past absurdly expensive mansions and flash apartments in the city's ritziest neighbourhoods: Chelsea, Kensington, Knightsbridge, Hyde Park. It's like one of those Hollywood tours where you trundle past the homes of celebs, pausing to snap photos of featureless gates. Except this is rainy London, and they're famous for all the wrong reasons...
↱www.smh.com.au