Tom Burgis

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER If you think the UK isnt corrupt, you havent looked hard enough This terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it GEORGE MONBIOT, GUARDIAN AN ECONOMIST AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 When you pick this book up, you wont be able to put it down MISHA GLENNY, author of MCMAFIA Gripping, disturbing and deeply reported BEN RHODES, bestselling author of THE WORLD AS IT IS In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis reveals a terrifying global web of kleptocracy and corruption. Kleptopia follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, enriching oligarchs and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, London to the Trump White House, it shows how the thieves are uniting and the terrible human cost. A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London the worlds piggy bank for blood money. Riveting, horrifying and written like fiction, this book shows that while we are looking the other way, all that we hold most dear is being stolen.

Un viaje de investigación impactante en la forma en que el comercio de recursos causa estragos en África, "La máquina del saqueo 'explora el lado oscuro de la economía mundial.

O PREMIADO JORNALISTA DE INVESTIGAÇÃOTOM BURGIS EXPÕE UMA TERRÍVEL REDEGLOBAL DE CORRUPÇÃO FINANCEIRACleptopia segue o dinheiro sujo que está a inundar a economia global, a encorajar ditadores e a en

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Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, The Looting Machine explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.Africa: the worlds poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. While accounting for just 2 percent of global GDP, it is home to 15 per cent of the planets crude oil, 40 per cent of its gold and 80 per cent of its platinum. A third of the earths mineral deposits lie beneath its soil. But far from being a salvation, this buried treasure has been a curse.The Looting Machine takes you on a gripping and shocking journey through anonymous boardrooms and glittering headquarters to expose a new form of financialized colonialism. Africas booming growth is driven by the voracious hunger for natural resources from rapidly emerging economics such as China. But in the shadows a network of traders, bankers and corporate raiders has sprung up to grease the palms of venal local political elites. What is happening in Africas resource states is systematic looting. In country after country across the continent, the resource industry is tearing at the very fabric of society. But, like its victims, the beneficiaries of this looting machine have names.For six years Tom Burgis has been on a mission to expose corruption and give voice to the millions of Africans who suffer the consequences of living under this curse. Combining deep reporting with an action-packed narrative, he travels to the heart of Africas resource states, meeting a warlord in Nigerias oil-soaked Niger Delta and crossing a warzone to reach a remote mineral mine in eastern Congo. The result is a blistering investigation that throws a completely fresh light on the workings of the global economy and will make you think twice about what goes into the mobile phone in your pocket and the tank of your car.

Stand by for fireworks as it hits the shelves SUNDAY TIMESIf Orwell were with us today, hed be writing books like this PATRICK RADDEN KEEFEBreath-taking and jaw-dropping PETER FRANKOPANA true-life thriller ANNE APPLEBAUMFrom the bestselling author of Kleptopia comes a true story about Cuckooland a world where the rich can buy everything including the truth.Everywhere, the powerful are making a renewed claim to the greatest prize of all: to own the truth. The power to choose what you want reality to be and impose that reality on the world.For three years, Tom Burgis followed a lead that took him deeper and deeper into Cuckooland the place where the rich own the truth. The trail snaked from the Kremlin to Kathmandu, Stockholm to the Steppe, from a blood-soaked town square in Uzbekistan to a royal retreat in Scotland. Burgis hunted down oligarchs, developed secret sources and traced vast sums of money flowing between multinational corporations, ex-Soviet dictators and the wests ruling elites. And he found one man who wanted the power to bend reality to his will.This book tells an astonishing story: a tale of secrets and lies that reveals how fragile that truth can be. Whether its in Kazakh torture chambers or the UKs High Court, the lords of Cuckooland are seizing control of the truth. They decree what stories may be told about war and money and power, what we are permitted to know and more importantly, what we are not.From the bestselling author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland is a deeply reported work of non-fiction that reads like a thriller. It is a story of how globalisation and technological revolution have combined to imperil the foundation of free societies: that the truth belongs to the many, not the few.

Hay dos mundos que coexisten gracias a la fuerza de lo secreto: uno ficticio, en el que los gobiernos intentan defender los valores de los ciudadanos y los derechos democráticos, y otro real, en el que se mezclan los intereses del Estado y de las elites economicas. Esta obra es una ventana al mundo real, aquel en que los politicos y los servicios de inteligencia y seguridad nacional se codean con organizaciones criminales, y en el que las agencias de control financiero contribuyen a la opacidad de cuentas de multimillonarios, dictadores y mafiosos cuyo dinero corrupto esta socavando las instituciones. Desde la City de Londres hasta Ginebra, de Rusia a Kazajistan, pasando por Zimbabue, Canada, el Congo?, el recorrido de esta obra nos muestra no solo los entresijos del dinero turbio, sino tambien los nexos entre quienes operan y se enriquecen con ese capital ilicito. Narrado como un thriller, este libro revela de manera asombrosa la red de dinero negro que inunda la economia mundial, una lectura imprescindible en tiempos de evasion fiscal, blanqueo de capitales y trafico de influencias.

Hay dos mundos que coexisten gracias a la fuerza de lo secreto: uno ficticio, en el que los gobiernos intentan defender los valores de los ciudadanos y los derechos democráticos, y otro real, en el que se mezclan los intereses del Estado y de las elites economicas. Esta obra es una ventana al mundo real, aquel en que los politicos y los servicios de inteligencia y seguridad nacional se codean con organizaciones criminales, y en el que las agencias de control financiero contribuyen a la opacidad de cuentas de multimillonarios, dictadores y mafiosos cuyo dinero corrupto esta socavando las instituciones.Desde la City de Londres hasta Ginebra, de Rusia a Kazajistan, pasando por Zimbabue, Canada, el Congo, el recorrido de esta obra nos muestra no solo los entresijos del dinero turbio, sino tambien los nexos entre quienes operan y se enriquecen con ese capital ilicito. Narrado como un thriller, este libro revela de manera asombrosa la red de dinero negro que inunda la economia mundial, una lectura imprescindible en tiempos de evasion fiscal, blanqueo de capitales y trafico de influencias.

Hay dos mundos que coexisten gracias a la fuerza de lo secreto: uno ficticio, en el que los gobiernos intentan defender los valores de los ciudadanos y los derechos democráticos, y otro real, en el que se mezclan los intereses del Estado y de las elites economicas. Esta obra es una ventana al mundo real, aquel en que los politicos y los servicios de inteligencia y seguridad nacional se codean con organizaciones criminales, y en el que las agencias de control financiero contribuyen a la opacidad de cuentas de multimillonarios, dictadores y mafiosos cuyo dinero corrupto esta socavando las instituciones.Desde la City de Londres hasta Ginebra, de Rusia a Kazajistan, pasando por Zimbabue, Canada, el Congo, el recorrido de esta obra nos muestra no solo los entresijos del dinero turbio, sino tambien los nexos entre quienes operan y se enriquecen con ese capital ilicito. Narrado como un thriller, este libro revela de manera asombrosa la red de dinero negro que inunda la economia mundial, una lectura imprescindible en tiempos de evasion fiscal, blanqueo de capitales y trafico de influencias.