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"Indulging Kleptocracy achieves the extremely rare feat of marking a major advance in the scholarly study of corruption, while at the same time shedding a harsh light on the seediest side of the UK's political economy. A work of masterly investigation, the book exposes not just a failure to stem a tide of dirty money washing through Britain's institutions, but the active and on-going complicity of many in the political establishment, the financial sector, the professions, and think-tanks and elite universities in aiding and abetting foreign kleptocrats." -- Jason Sharman, University of Cambridge and King's College, Cambridge"This is an extraordinarily important book coming at a crucial time. It is a vital primer for policymakers, politicians, and campaigners to understand how the UK has become one of the world's most respectable enablers of kleptocracy. And it is a wake-up call for all of us to hold enablers and the institutions that facilitate them to account." -- Susan Hawley, Executive Director, Spotlight on Corruption"Executive Kleptocracy is a global problem, but it has very British causes. Heathershaw, Prelec, and Mayne have identified a hard truth that many of our politicians have shied away from--we have rolled out the red carpet out for any crook, oligarch, or kleptocrat with a few million to spend and gleefully served as a one-stop shop for anyone looking to launder ill-gotten gains or murky reputations. This is an important analysis of how dirty money has flowed into the UK, and why this is catastrophic not just for the impoverished nations it is being stolen from, but also for the British cultural, economic, and political institutions it undermines." -- Margaret Hodge, Former Minister of State for Employment of the United Kingdom"With great analytical nuance and ethnographic skill, Indulging Kleptocracy recasts our assumptions about how transnational kleptocracy operates within the zones of legal ambiguity created by the globalization of financial and legal services. Far from being marginal players for distant autocrats, the book persuasively shows how today's professional enablers, through their modern-day indulgences, have forged the kleptocratic networks that thrive in the UK and across the West." -- Alexander Cooley, Barnard College, Columbia University"A brave and rigorous book, Indulging Kleptocracy reveals an entire system of professional support that wraps around wealthy corrupt actors, lifting them up within business, social and political circles, and legitimizing their interests. As the authors describe with great clarity and urgency, this system has grown so large and so unchallenged that it now threatens the integrity of our economies and our democracies. Nuanced, fair and immensely readable, this is essential reading for our time." -- Alexandra Gillies, Director, Global Anti-Corruption Consortium, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)"The book is a model of relevant academic research and is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how money moves around the world in the twenty-first century." -- Foreign Affairs"Indulging Kleptocracy provides us with a thoroughly researched account of how British professional service providers ('enablers') enable transnational kleptocracy by focussing on the services ('professional indulgences') they offer to the post-communist corrupted elites in the United Kingdom. The book demystifies the needs of kleptocratic elites, how these needs are met and by whom, with the main focus being on the "by whom" part-professional enablers." -- Iryna Bogdanova, International Criminology, "Indulging Kleptocracy achieves the extremely rare feat of marking a major advance in the scholarly study of corruption, while at the same time shedding a harsh light on the seediest side of the UK's political economy. A work of masterly investigation, the book exposes not just a failure to stem a tide of dirty money washing through Britain's institutions, but the active and on-going complicity of many in the political establishment, the financialsector, the professions, and think-tanks and elite universities in aiding and abetting foreign kleptocrats." -- Jason Sharman, University of Cambridge and King's College, Cambridge"This is an extraordinarily important book coming at a crucial time. It is a vital primer for policymakers, politicians, and campaigners to understand how the UK has become one of the world's most respectable enablers of kleptocracy. And it is a wake-up call for all of us to hold enablers and the institutions that facilitate them to account." -- Susan Hawley, Executive Director, Spotlight on Corruption"Executive Kleptocracy is a global problem, but it has very British causes. Heathershaw, Prelec, and Mayne have identified a hard truth that many of our politicians have shied away from--we have rolled out the red carpet out for any crook, oligarch, or kleptocrat with a few million to spend and gleefully served as a one-stop shop for anyone looking to launder ill-gotten gains or murky reputations. This is an important analysis of how dirty money has flowed intothe UK, and why this is catastrophic not just for the impoverished nations it is being stolen from, but also for the British cultural, economic, and political institutions it undermines." -- MargaretHodge, Former Minister of State for Employment of the United Kingdom"With great analytical nuance and ethnographic skill, Indulging Kleptocracy recasts our assumptions about how transnational kleptocracy operates within the zones of legal ambiguity created by the globalization of financial and legal services. Far from being marginal players for distant autocrats, the book persuasively shows how today's professional enablers, through their modern-day indulgences, have forged the kleptocratic networks that thrive in theUK and across the West." -- Alexander Cooley, Barnard College, Columbia University"A brave and rigorous book, Indulging Kleptocracy reveals an entire system of professional support that wraps around wealthy corrupt actors, lifting them up within business, social and political circles, and legitimizing their interests. As the authors describe with great clarity and urgency, this system has grown so large and so unchallenged that it now threatens the integrity of our economies and our democracies. Nuanced, fair and immensely readable,this is essential reading for our time." -- Alexandra Gillies, Director, Global Anti-Corruption Consortium, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)"The book is a model of relevant academic research and is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how money moves around the world in the twenty-first century." -- Foreign Affairs"Indulging Kleptocracy provides us with a thoroughly researched account of how British professional service providers ('enablers') enable transnational kleptocracy by focussing on the services ('professional indulgences') they offer to the post-communist corrupted elites in the United Kingdom. The book demystifies the needs of kleptocratic elites, how these needs are met and by whom, with the main focus being on the "by whom" part-professionalenablers." -- Iryna Bogdanova, International Criminology, "Indulging Kleptocracy achieves the extremely rare feat of marking a major advance in the scholarly study of corruption, while at the same time shedding a harsh light on the seediest side of the UK's political economy. A work of masterly investigation, the book exposes not just a failure to stem a tide of dirty money washing through Britain's institutions, but the active and on-going complicity of many in the political establishment, the financial sector, the professions, and think-tanks and elite universities in aiding and abetting foreign kleptocrats." -- Jason Sharman, University of Cambridge and King's College, Cambridge"This is an extraordinarily important book coming at a crucial time. It is a vital primer for policymakers, politicians, and campaigners to understand how the UK has become one of the world's most respectable enablers of kleptocracy. And it is a wake-up call for all of us to hold enablers and the institutions that facilitate them to account." -- Susan Hawley, Executive Director, Spotlight on Corruption"Executive Kleptocracy is a global problem, but it has very British causes. Heathershaw, Prelec, and Mayne have identified a hard truth that many of our politicians have shied away from--we have rolled out the red carpet out for any crook, oligarch, or kleptocrat with a few million to spend and gleefully served as a one-stop shop for anyone looking to launder ill-gotten gains or murky reputations. This is an important analysis of how dirty money has flowed into the UK, and why this is catastrophic not just for the impoverished nations it is being stolen from, but also for the British cultural, economic, and political institutions it undermines." -- Margaret Hodge, Former Minister of State for Employment of the United Kingdom"With great analytical nuance and ethnographic skill, Indulging Kleptocracy recasts our assumptions about how transnational kleptocracy operates within the zones of legal ambiguity created by the globalization of financial and legal services. Far from being marginal players for distant autocrats, the book persuasively shows how today's professional enablers, through their modern-day indulgences, have forged the kleptocratic networks that thrive in the UK and across the West." -- Alexander Cooley, Barnard College, Columbia University"A brave and rigorous book, Indulging Kleptocracy reveals an entire system of professional support that wraps around wealthy corrupt actors, lifting them up within business, social and political circles, and legitimizing their interests. As the authors describe with great clarity and urgency, this system has grown so large and so unchallenged that it now threatens the integrity of our economies and our democracies. Nuanced, fair and immensely readable, this is essential reading for our time." -- Alexandra Gillies, Director, Global Anti-Corruption Consortium, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)"The book is a model of relevant academic research and is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how money moves around the world in the twenty-first century." -- Foreign Affairs, Indulging Kleptocracy achieves the extremely rare feat of marking a major advance in the scholarly study of corruption, while at the same time shedding a harsh light on the seediest side of the UK's political economy. A work of masterly investigation, the book exposes not just a failure to stem a tide of dirty money washing through Britain's institutions, but the active and on-going complicity of many in the political establishment, the financial sector, the professions, and think-tanks and elite universities in aiding and abetting foreign kleptocrats., "Indulging Kleptocracy achieves the extremely rare feat of marking a major advance in the scholarly study of corruption, while at the same time shedding a harsh light on the seediest side of the UK's political economy. A work of masterly investigation, the book exposes not just a failure to stem a tide of dirty money washing through Britain's institutions, but the active and on-going complicity of many in the political establishment, the financial sector, the professions, and think-tanks and elite universities in aiding and abetting foreign kleptocrats." -- Jason Sharman, University of Cambridge and King's College, Cambridge"This is an extraordinarily important book coming at a crucial time. It is a vital primer for policymakers, politicians, and campaigners to understand how the UK has become one of the world's most respectable enablers of kleptocracy. And it is a wake-up call for all of us to hold enablers and the institutions that facilitate them to account." -- Susan Hawley, Executive Director, Spotlight on Corruption"Executive Kleptocracy is a global problem, but it has very British causes. Heathershaw, Prelec, and Mayne have identified a hard truth that many of our politicians have shied away from--we have rolled out the red carpet out for any crook, oligarch, or kleptocrat with a few million to spend and gleefully served as a one-stop shop for anyone looking to launder ill-gotten gains or murky reputations. This is an important analysis of how dirty money has flowed into the UK, and why this is catastrophic not just for the impoverished nations it is being stolen from, but also for the British cultural, economic, and political institutions it undermines." -- Margaret Hodge, Former Minister of State for Employment of the United Kingdom"With great analytical nuance and ethnographic skill, Indulging Kleptocracy recasts our assumptions about how transnational kleptocracy operates within the zones of legal ambiguity created by the globalization of financial and legal services. Far from being marginal players for distant autocrats, the book persuasively shows how today's professional enablers, through their modern-day indulgences, have forged the kleptocratic networks that thrive in the UK and across the West." -- Alexander Cooley, Barnard College, Columbia University"A brave and rigorous book, Indulging Kleptocracy reveals an entire system of professional support that wraps around wealthy corrupt actors, lifting them up within business, social and political circles, and legitimizing their interests. As the authors describe with great clarity and urgency, this system has grown so large and so unchallenged that it now threatens the integrity of our economies and our democracies. Nuanced, fair and immensely readable, this is essential reading for our time." -- Alexandra Gillies, Director, Global Anti-Corruption Consortium, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
In recent decades, there has been an upsurge of western professionals providing financial and legal services to kleptocrats Russia and Eurasia. The United Kingdom has provided more such services than any other nation, and the effect has been to undermine democracy and good governance in both the UK and in the countries these elites come from. By cataloging through rich case studies of how kleptocrats offshored their wealth and exploited both financial deregulation and the UK's punitive libel regime, this book demonstrates what is at stake politically in the globalization of authoritarian regime practices., A powerful and sophisticated analysis of how Western professionals have enabled kleptocratic elite networks and undermined the rule of law.After the Cold War ended, the British government created the conditions under which a large, multinational class of extremely wealthy kleptocrats based primarily in Russia and Eurasia could move to and thrive in London with a genuine sense of impunity. What is the role of professional enablers in the rise of kleptocracy?In Indulging Kleptocracy, John Heathershaw, Tena Prelec, and Tom Mayne examine the broad range of financial, legal, and related services provided in the UK with respect to suspicious wealth from Russian and Eurasian elites. Through a series of rich, gripping case studies, the authors show how powerful legal and financial service industries that know how to game the system have made it possible for these corrupt elites to operate with relative impunity. They detail how these enablers exploit deregulation and the under-enforcement of the law, offshore their clients' wealth, and enhance their reputations and influence via philanthropy, political donations and the use of the UK's punitive libel regime. They further argue that kleptocracy is not just a moral and economic problem that sits at the margins of real politics, but it impoverishes the global south and undermines institutions in the global north, eroding faith in democracy by empowering corrupt elite business-political networks in global politics.Shedding light on dangerous patterns of corruption, Indulging Kleptocracy explores one of the most fascinating stories in the post-Cold War era and offers suggestions on how to break the system of indulgences and stymie the globalization of kleptocracy.
Foreword by Oliver Bullough Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Indulging Kleptocracy Chapter 2: The Ends of Two Empires Chapter 3. Demand: Who Wants What Chapter 4: Supply: The Enabler Effect Chapter 5: Hiding Money Chapter 6: Listing Companies Chapter 7: Buying Rights Chapter 8: Purchasing Properties Chapter 9: Explaining Wealth Chapter 10: Selling Status Chapter 11: Making Friends Chapter 12: Tracking Enemies Chapter 13: Silencing Critics Chapter 14: How To Indulge No More Bibliography Appendices Index
Indulging Kleptocracy : British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites, and the Enabling of Corruption
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Sociology / General, International Relations / Diplomacy
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science
Author
John Heathershaw, Tom Mayne, Tena Prelec
Format
Hardcover