Kleptokracie - Jak špinavé peníze dobývají svět – Burgis Tom (2023)

A shocking, meticulously crafted work of non-fiction in which acclaimed investigative journalist Tom Burgis reveals how global kleptocracy corrupts the world around us. ***** They are everywhere — thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. They have amassed more money than most countries. But what they are really stealing is power. Until now, we have learned about their existence only from what they left behind — a body in a charred Audi, workers shot to pieces in the Kazakh desert, manipulated elections in Zimbabwe, a British banker who was silenced and ridiculed when he tried to uncover the truth about London’s City. ***** Tom Burgis weaves together four stories that unveil a terrifying global network of corruption. A troublemaker from Basingstoke who stumbles upon the secrets of a Swiss bank, a billionaire from the former Soviet Union building a private empire, an honest Canadian lawyer with a mysterious client, and a Brooklyn con artist under CIA protection. ***** Burgis presents a picture of a world from which we have only known fragments. He follows the trails of dirty money flooding the global economy, aiding dictators and contaminating democracy. But the paths leading from the Kremlin to Beijing, from Harare to Riyadh, and from Paris to the White House reveal something much...