Has anyone ever heard of Oliver Bullough? Expert on Russian Money Laundering in the UK.

[smirkymonkey]

I just saw one of his video's on Twitter and found it very enlightening. It's a little on the long side, but fascinating and very watchable. Not a dull moment.

Link to tweet

[smirkymonkey]

1. K&R

Don't want this to sink too quickly because it's really good and shed some light on a topic I knew little about until now.

If you don't have the time to watch now, please kick for later watch. It's definitely worth it.

[Phoenix61]

2. Very interesting. nt

[Karadeniz]

3. Excellent!!!

[JanMichael]

4. Wow. Good find. Thank you.

[ms liberty]

5. K&R n/t

[jmbar2]

6. Good production values

Along with great information about the grotesque extent of Russian money-laundering, you get a nice tour of London in this video.

Thanks for posting.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Yes, I thought it was very well done!

And the manner in which it was done was very effective.

[okaawhatever]

7. Very interesting indeed. While watching it I was wondering if you couldn't break into an expensive

home and claim to be the owner. I wonder how long it would take the authorities to determine the legal owner, what with all the shell companies.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Heh heh!

I like how you think. Just think of all those billionaire oligarchs having to deal with squatters in their homes and not being able to legally toss them out. Kind of like the Russian Revolution?

[Joinfortmill]

10. Wow

[crickets]

11. K&R for visibility.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Thanks crickets!

I really think this is a great video and don't think that most people are aware of this level of enabling of Russian criminal activity by the British government and how much they could do if they really wanted to stop it.

[crickets]

13. Thank *you*! I've just finished watching it now, and it was fascinating.

We have our own clutch of oligarchs running around with impunity. I also wonder if our new klepto unit, like the one Boris recently has set up, will actually try to do something or just be window dressing. The amount of money involved is so huge, it runs through so many countries, and touches so many 'untouchable' powerful people, it will be amazing if anything changes or gets done.

This level of money laundering as well as the means of hiding it in anonymous shell companies never should have been made so easy.

Recent interesting post, part of a larger conversation:
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16416324
no paywall for Guardian link at post: https://archive.ph/Eife8