by Marie Le Conte, for Foreign Policy
April 18, 2025
London, you may be aware, is the place to be if you’re a shadowy individual with piles of ill-gotten money who wishes to, ideally, shield said ill-gotten money from view.
This has been a popular topic in investigative nonfiction for some time now. In 2009, Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley published Londongrad: From Russia with Cash. In it, they describe how a “group of buccaneering Russian oligarchs made colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism—and many of them came to London to enjoy their new-found wealth.”
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