Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won - Oliver Bullough

Category: History, Political
Language: English
Keywords: Corruption Greed Money-laundering World Politics

Written by Oliver Bullough
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Without money laundering, Latin American cartels would collapse. So would Russian kleptocrats, Afghan insurgents, American tax dodgers and a menagerie of human (and animal) traffickers.

Governments realise this. The trouble is, they don’t really know how the process works. Despite endless laws, raids, fines and taskforces, nothing seems to stop the merry-go-round. So join Oliver Bullough on a voyage of discovery.

On the dark side of the world economy, cash is still king - indeed, crime is arguably the only reason cash still exists. Cryptocurrencies flow through ledgers that would look familiar to a fifteenth-century banker. Vast exchanges of dirty banknotes, designer handbags and baby eels prop up a trade in illegal goods stretching from Miami to Shanghai, via, strangely, north Oxfordshire.

And it all works brilliantly. Better than ever.