Everybody Loves Our Dollars - How Money Laundering Won

Should be required reading for every politician, regulator and board member with an interest in the financial services industry … Such an important book * FINANCIAL TIMES *It’s not just that Oliver Bullough possesses a kind of x-ray vision, enabling him to perceive all the malignant stuff coursing just beneath the surface of our economic and political systems; he is also a gifted storyteller, who can unpick the most fiendishly complex grift so that it becomes not just explicable but perversely entertaining. Everybody Loves Our Dollars is Bullough at his nimble, companionable, panoramic best, tracing vast amounts of dirty money as it flits around the planet - and in and out of our own pockets – PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAINOne of the very few people who not only understand the convoluted world of money laundering, but are also able to explain it in clear and elegant prose – ANNE APPLEBAUM, author of AUTOCRACY, INC.Utterly fascinating - like being given X-ray glasses to see the real world. Oliver Bullough should be a national treasure – MARINA HYDE, host, THE REST IS ENTERTAINMENTThe truth hurts and this stings. Insightful and accurate – DAVID LEWIS, former executive secretary of the Financial Action Task ForceA vital must-read book. Bullough’s latest exposé rails against the hypocritical box-ticking of a compliance culture that utterly fails to rein in money laundering and targets poorer nations, while allowing financial crime to flourish in London and New York. A call to action against the whitecollar bankers and lawyers who feed off the crimes targeting the world’s weakest – CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN’S PEOPLEThis is a blistering account of our failure to stop dirty money. Oliver Bullough has figured out what some of the world’s most powerful people don’t want us to know - how they keep their filthy billions secret. He exposes the hypocrisy and cynicism of decades of western policy. If you want to know why the kleptocrats, the human traffickers, the terrorists and the grifters are winning, read this book now – TOM BURGIS, author of KLEPTOPIABullough has done it again. Having explained how the world’s top goons and gangsters run their finances, he now lays bare why our attempts to stop them are not just ineffective and but scandalously unfair. Box-ticking and bullying, hype and hypocrisy - his verdict on the supposed custodians of our system’s integrity is scathing. Packed with anecdotes and insights, this book should be on every decision-maker’s desk – EDWARD LUCAS, author of THE NEW COLD WAROur leading expert on dirty money exposes the secret networks that power the international economy of crime. Lucid, funny and compelling, Bullough may know more about money laundering than the criminals themselves – ZEKE FAUX, author of NUMBER GO UPBullough has a remarkable gift of making you laugh - and then making you shout with outrage at the financial crime ravaging our lives – PETER POMERANTSEV, author of HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WARBrilliant. An adrenalised tour of the world’s dirty money hotspots. Should be slipped into the red box of every minister – BEN STEWART, co-founder, Led By Donkeys

Oliver Bullough is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Butler to the World and Moneyland, as well as two celebrated books about the former Soviet Union: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great. His journalism appears regularly in the Guardian, The New York Times and GQ.