How the UK helps the world’s kleptocrats and crooks – deliberately

‘Financial skulduggery isn’t just something that happens in the UK; there has been a concerted and decades-long effort to encourage it to do so’

This is an extract from ‘Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals’ by Oliver Bullough, published by Profile Books at £20 hardback, ebook and audiobook on 10 March

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