Out 20th May, pre-order here.
A revealing and controversial expose of international white-collar
crime. Alexander Lebedev continues his investigation of 'banksters'
(gangster-bankers) scams which he started in his autobiographical book,
Hunt the Banker. Each chapter examines a different sophisticated
fraudulent scheme whereby stolen billions are laundered in offshore tax
havens and deposited in secret accounts with the major UK and US banks,
invested in shares of blue-chip companies, and converted into mansions,
yachts, private jets, works of art and luxury goods.
The topics
covered include the cheating of their customers by supposedly
respectable financial institutions in Europe and America, their
complicity in laundering illegal proceeds of corrupt officials from all
over the world, the financial pyramid schemes of Bernie Madoff and other
mega-fraudsters, and black holes in the charity universe. Lebedev
investigates the phenomenon of the symbiosis of 'dirty money' and the
latest information technologies of the blockchain, which threatens the
global financial system with a cryptocurrency apocalypse, and he
describes the degradation of political elites inebriated by biased
mainstream media and fake news stories.
Hardback
Banksters : The Stolen Trillions - Alexander Lebedev
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