How To Rob A Country

The problems amongst having an oligarch every bit a president is that they volition pocket every bit much coin every bit they tin piece they are inwards power. The longer they stay inwards ability the amend they dice at laundering their stolen money. This is peculiarly truthful of those oligarchs who are supported yesteryear Russia.

Take Viktor Yanukovich for example. As president of Ukraine from 2010-2014 he managed to pocket billions of dollars using a global coin laundering network. Al Jazeera has used documents recovered afterward the Ukrainian revolution to map how Victor Yanukovich was able to displace his stolen coin only about the world.

The Oligarchs is an interactive storey map which tracks the movements of the stolen coin through musical rhythm out companies inwards offshore revenue enhancement havens together with other money-laundering hotspots only about the world, such every bit the UK. As yous progress through the storey map yous tin follow the trail of the coin every bit it is laundered build clean yesteryear existence passed from banking corporation to banking corporation together with revenue enhancement haven to revenue enhancement haven. None of the banks used, including those inwards the United States, flagged the coin or its movements every bit suspicious.

Al Jazeera suggests that the coin stolen from Ukraine yesteryear Victor Yanukovich is straightaway existence used to fuel dissent inwards Ukraine.