London journalist Oliver Bullough once romanticized the fall of the Berlin Wall and the promise of new liberal democracies in former Iron Curtain nations. He moved from his home in Britain to Russia in the 1990s and stayed for several years.
As he watched Russia and the new nations of the East move away from freedom and toward despotism and despair, he investigated the causes. Bullough discovered an entire world of thieves and their enablers, stretching from the Kremlin to the Dakotas. He found that global money laundering is so large it nearly forms a nation of its own, which he calls “Moneyland.”
In this overview, he describes its corruption and recounts the foul deeds people perform to gain, protect, and enjoy power and wealth. His reports of the West’s facilitation of international thieves and murderers might shock you. Among his revelations: The United States is now the best place on Earth for international criminals to conduct business. Despite the dismay of learning what Moneyland holds, you’ll be intrigued by this journey through the world’s financial underbelly.
John le Carré said about MONEYLAND: "If you want to know why inter-national crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you." And he added, "Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them."
No need to be a kleptocrat to afford this book. Order it from any one of several good bookstores - mine is bookdepository.com - ; I just did. (good ol' Angus & Robertson also has it on ebay!)
