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The UK serves the world’s corrupt elite – can Britain break its dirty money addiction?

Is the government prepared to put sanctions that really bite on the tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and crooks who come to the UK to launder their money, dodge tax and buy political influence?Meet the journalists bringing daylight to international elite corruption.

The UK serves the world’s corrupt elite – can Britain break its dirty money addiction?
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Oliver Bullough Journalist and author of ‘Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals’ and ‘Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back'
Kojo Koram Writer and academic, teaching at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London; editor of ‘The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line’; author of ‘Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire’
Peter Geoghegan Editor-in-chief, openDemocracy, and author of ‘Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics’
Chair, Mary Fitzgerald Director of expression at the Open Society Foundation, leading on global work to support journalism and tackle disinformation

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