Londongrad: From Russia with Cash; The Inside Story of the Oligarchs

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Mark Hollingsworth. Londongrad: From Russia with Cash; The Inside Story of the Oligarchs

MARK HOLLINGSWORTH AND STEWART LANSLEY. LONDON GRAD. FROM RUSSIA WITH CASH

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER 1 The Man Who Knew Too Much

CHAPTER 2 The Russian Billionaires’ Club

CHAPTER 3 Putin’s Purge

CHAPTER 4 Hiding the Money

CHAPTER 5 The Russians Have Landed

CHAPTER 6 Boys with Toys

CHAPTER 7 The Big Game Hunters

CHAPTER 8 The Curse of Yukos

CHAPTER 9 Plotting Revolution

CHAPTER 10 Murder Inc

CHAPTER 11 Showdown

CHAPTER 12 Paint the Town Red

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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THE INSIDE STORY OF THE OLIGARCHS

- Russian proverb

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In contrast to the corrupt, politicized judiciary in Russia, London has also offered legal sanctuary and a fair due process of law. While indicted Russian businessmen have been arrested and detained in Spain, France, Italy, and the United States, Britain has refused to accept any of the dozens of extradition attempts by the Russian authorities, souring diplomatic relations in the process. ‘I think they [Russians] feel that this is a country of law,’ said Berezovsky. ‘They feel that they are well protected here.’1

London has long attracted the extravagantly rich, but the post-millennium wave of foreign wealth was unprecedented. In the decade up to 2008, trillions of pounds of foreign capital settled in the UK. For those who make money out of money, it was a golden decade for tax lawyers, accountants, and bankers. ‘The British have found a new vocation,’ said William Cash, the well-connected publisher who founded Spear’s Wealth Management Survey, the glossy quarterly that chronicles the activities of the super-rich. ‘That is being the financial bag-carriers of the world. Britain’s ruling classes used to own the wealth. Now they’ve become the fee-earning servants, servicing the global financial elite.’2

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