Oliver Bullough

SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR an ECONOMIST Politics and Current Affairs book of the year and a DAILY MAIL and TIMES book of the year 'You cannot understand power, wealth and poverty without knowing about Moneyland.' Simon Kuper, New Statesman 2019: democracy is eating itself, inequality is skyrocketing, the system is breaking apart. Why? Because in 1962, some bankers in London had an idea that changed the world. That idea was called 'offshore'. It meant that, for the first time, thieves could dream big. They could take everything. Join investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into the hidden world of the new global kleptocrats. See the poor countries where public money is stolen and the rich ones where it is laundered and invested. Watch the crooks at work and at play, and meet their respectable, white-collar enablers. Learn how the new system works and begin to see how we can tackle it.

Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back

Moneyland

In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the centre of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world...

How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

Butler to the World

From Oliver Bullough, the acclaimed author of the Orwell Prize-shortlisted, Let Our Fame Be Great, a study - part travelogue, part political analysis - of a nation in crisis The Last Man in Russia is a portrait of the country like no other; a quest to understand the soul of Russia. Award-winning writer Oliver Bullough travels the country from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept village, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man, the dissident Orthodox priest Father Dmitry. His moving, terrifying story is the story of a nation: famine, war, the frozen wastes of the Gulag, the collapse of communism and now, a people seeking oblivion. Bullough shows that in a country so willing to crush its citizens, there is also courage, resilience and flickering glimmers of hope. 'Brisk, lucid style ... skilful interweaving of historical context with his own rich experience of Russia. [Bullough] has a talent for sketching the people he meets, often administering a welcome dose of humour ... and he appreciates the absurd, in the best Russian tradition ... an ambitious and wide-ranging journey' Arthur House, Sunday Telegraph 'An extraordinary portrait of a nation struggling to shed its past and find peace with itself' Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times Oliver Bullough studied modern history at Oxford University and moved to Russia after graduating in 1999. He lived in St Petersburg, Bishkek and Moscow over the next seven years, travelling widely as a reporter for Reuters news agency. He is now the Caucasus Editor for the Institute of War and Peace Reporting. His first book, Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus, received the Cornelius Ryan award in the United States and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in Britain. Oliver Bullough received the Oxfam Emerging Writer award in 2011.

And The Struggle To Save A Dying Nation

The Last Man in Russia

journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus

Let our fame be great

AS SEEN ON LED BY DONKEYS 'Brilliant' Marina Hyde, Guardian 'A savage analysis of Britain's soul. As essential as Orwell at his best' Peter Pomerantsev 'Horribly brilliant' James O'Brien How did Britain become the servant of the world's most powerful and corrupt men? From accepting multi-million pound tips from Russian oligarchs, to enabling Gibraltar to become an offshore gambling haven, meet Butler Britain... The Suez Crisis of 1956 was Britain's twentieth-century nadir, the moment when the once superpower was bullied into retreat. In the immortal words of former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 'Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role.' But the funny thing was, Britain had already found a role. It even had the costume. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet. Butler to the World reveals how the UK took up its position at the elbow of the worst people on Earth: the oligarchs, kleptocrats and gangsters. We pride ourselves on values of fair play and the rule of law, but few countries do more to frustrate global anti-corruption efforts. We are now a nation of Jeeveses, snobbish enablers for rich halfwits of considerably less charm than Bertie Wooster. It doesn't have to be that way.

The book the oligarchs don’t want you to read - how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals

Para Vatan

Estos son los hombres que han robado al mundo entero Hace tiempo, si un funcionario robaba, podía comprarse un coche o construirse una casa nueva, pero eso era todo. Si continuaba robando, el dinero se acumulaba hasta que no quedaba espacio donde ocultarlo o se lo comían los ratones. Pero, entonces, a un reducido grupo de banqueros londinenses se le ocurrió una gran idea: los paraísos fiscales, lugares imaginarios donde el dinero podía moverse libremente. Esta innovación dio lugar a una ingente cantidad de riquezas ocultas que esquivan las leyes para proteger a sus poderosos dueños. Oliver Bullough, célebre periodista de investigación, nos acompaña en un viaje por Moneyland, un lugar secreto y sin ley, hogar de los superricos apátridas. Descubre cómo instituciones de Europa y Estados Unidos se han convertido en máquinas de blanqueo de capitales que han debilitado los cimientos de la estabilidad occidental. Identifica a los cleptócratas y conoce a los heroicos activistas que luchan por evitar que estos ladrones controlen el mundo entero. "Si quieres saber por qué los sinvergüenzas de todo el mundo y sus respetables consejeros financieros caminan con la cabeza bien alta mientras el resto de los mortales pagan impuestos, este es el libro ideal para ti." John le Carré

Por qué los ladrones y los tramposos controlan el mundo y cómo arrebatárselo

Von heruntergekommenen Städten an der sibirischen Grenze über Steueroasen in der Karibik bis zu den Verbrechervillen in London und Manhattan – irgendwas läuft falsch in dieser Welt. Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, was. Vor nicht allzu langer Zeit konnte ein Amtsträger, der sich aus der öffentlichen Kasse bediente, nicht ganz so viel mit seinem Geld anfangen. Er konnte sich ein neues Auto kaufen oder sich ein schönes Haus bauen, es vielleicht noch an Freunde und ­Familie verschenken, aber das war es im Großen und Ganzen dann auch. Wenn er weiter stehlen würde, würden sich die Geldscheine nur in seinem neuen Haus stapeln, bis alle Zimmer voll wären oder es die Mäuse auffressen würden. Dann hatten ein paar Banker in London eine geniale Idee ...Begleiten Sie den investigativen Journalisten Oliver Bullough auf eine Reise ins »Land des Geldes« – einen grenzenlosen Staat der Superreichen. Erfahren Sie, wie die Institutionen Europas und der USA zu Geldwäscheinstituten wurden, die die Fundamente westlicher Stabilität untergraben. Entdecken Sie die wahren Kosten einer Geschäftspolitik, die weder Korruption noch Gefahr scheut. Treffen Sie die Kleptokraten und ihre schrecklichen Kinder. Und finden Sie heraus, wie heroische Aktivisten sich auf der ganzen Welt zur Wehr setzen. Dies ist die Geschichte von Geld und Macht im 21. Jahrhundert. Es ist noch nicht zu spät, sie umzuschreiben.

Warum Diebe und Betrüger die Welt beherrschen

Land des Geldes

How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals

Bli med på en reise inn i Pengeland – et sted der de rike skjuler sin formue for å slippe skatt og de mektige utnytter systemet til å stjele. Det er et land hvor gigantiske summer flyttes rundt, utenfor all kontroll. De superrike lever globalt og pengene strømmer over grensene, der eventuelle kontrollinstanser ikke kan følge etter. Gjennom alle historiene i boken fletter forfatter Oliver Bullough inn en rød tråd: Når finansinstitusjoner i Europa og USA har blitt sentre for hvitvasking, er noe fundamentalt galt med hvordan økonomien fungerer. Skatteparadiser, maltesiske pass, korrupsjon, amerikansk hemmelighold, skallselskaper i Panama, truster i Jersey, stiftelser i Liechtenstein − når de superrike på denne måten kan betale seg fri fra gjeldende lover og regler, undergraves demokratiet. Pengeland er en rystende fortelling fra 2000-tallet om rikdom, makt og hemmelighold. Oliver Bullough (f. 1977) er er historiker og journalist fra England. Han har bodd og arbeidet syv år i Russland, blant annet for Reuters med spesialfelt Kaukasus. Han har skrevet to bøker om sine erfaringer fra regionen, som begge fikk strålende anmeldelser og priser. Hans artikler blir publisert av The Guardian, The New York Times og GQ. Han bor nå i Wales med kone og barn.

Pengeland

Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demographic tragedy. Faced with staggering population decline—and near-certain economic collapse—driven by toxic levels of alcohol abuse, Russia is also battling a deeper sickness: a spiritual one, born out of the country’s long totalitarian experiment. In The Last Man in Russia, award-winning journalist Oliver Bullough uses the tale of a lone priest to give life to this national crisis. Father Dmitry Dudko, a dissident Orthodox Christian, was thrown into a Stalinist labor camp for writing poetry. Undaunted, on his release in the mid-1950s he began to preach to congregations across Russia with little concern for his own safety. At a time when the Soviet government denied its subjects the prospect of advancement, and turned friend against friend and brother against brother, Dudko urged his followers to cling to hope. He maintained a circle of sacred trust at the heart of one of history’s most deceitful systems. But as Bullough reveals, this courageous group of believers was eventually shattered by a terrible act of betrayal—one that exposes the full extent of the Communist tragedy. Still, Dudko’s dream endures. Although most Russians have forgotten the man himself, the embers of hope that survived the darkness are once more beginning to burn. Leading readers from a churchyard in Moscow to the snow-blanketed ghost towns of rural Russia, and from the forgotten graves of Stalin’s victims to a rock festival in an old gulag camp, The Last Man in Russia is at once a travelogue, a sociological study, a biography, and a cri de coeur for a dying nation—one that, Bullough shows, might yet be saved.

The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation

Two centuries ago, the Russians pushed out of the cold north towards the Caucasus Mountains, the range that blocked their access to Georgia, Turkey, Persia and India. They were forging their colonial destiny, and the mountains were in their way. The Caucasus had to be conquered and, for the highlanders who lived there, life would never be the same again. If the Russians expected it to be an easy fight, however, they were mistaken. Their armies would go on to defeat Napoleon and Hitler, as well as lesser foes, but no one resisted them for as long as these supposed savages. To hear the stories of the conquest, I travelled far from the mountains. I wandered through the steppes of Central Asia and the cities of Turkey. I squatted outside internment camps in Poland, and drank tea beneath the gentle hills of Israel. The stories I heard amplified the outrages I saw in the mountains themselves. As I set out, in my mind was a Chechen woman I had met in a refugee camp. She lived in a ragged, khaki tent in a field of mud and stones, but she welcomed me with laughter and kindness. Like the mountains of her homeland, her spirit had soared upwards, gleaming and pure. Throughout my travels, I met the same generosity from all the Caucasus peoples. Their stories have not been told, and there fame is not great, but truly it deserves to be.

Oliver Bullough

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