Fortunes are being made by political favourites, while Brexit could cement London’s reputation for money laundering, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot
, theft by officials in poorer nations amounts to between $20bn and $40bn a year. It’s a lot of money, and it harms wellbeing and democracy in those countries. But this figure is dwarfed by the illicit flows of money from poor and middling nations that are organised by multinational companies and banks. The US research group
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