Oliver Bullough: Into the World of Money Laundering
Saturday 14 March | 12:30pmHow do organised criminals move vast amounts of dirty money around the globe? How do they escape the eyes of law enforcement? And how do they turn their ill-gotten income into vast amounts of legitimately recognised wealth?
Investigative journalist Oliver Bullough exposes this shadow financial system and joins the dots of a sophisticated international operation that connects illegal logging in Papua New Guinea, real estate purchases in Vancouver, terrorism in the Middle East and capital flight from China.
He also reveals that there may, in fact, be a way to stop crime from paying – if only we are prepared to enter the tunnel at the heart of the global economy and see where it leads…
Book: Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
