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Bribe, Swindle or Steal

From Russia with Cash

Bribe, Swindle or Steal

Alexandra Addison-Wrage of TRACE International

Business, News, Business News

4.9582 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Roman Borisovich of ClampK discusses going undercover to film his documentary, "From Russia with Cash", which exposes exploitation of the London real estate market by kleptocrats and money-launderers. He is also the architect of London's "Kleptocracy Tours".

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to bribes,windle, or steel. I'm Alexandra Ragi, and today's guest is the founder of Clamp K.

0:14.4

That's the Committee for Legislation Against Money Laundering and Properties by Kleptocrats.

0:18.9

He stars in the 2015 documentary from Russia with cash, which exposed the money laundering and properties by kleptocrats. He stars in the 2015 documentary from Russia with cash, which exposed the money laundering schemes

0:25.5

of foreign officials and real estate agents in Great Britain.

0:28.9

Now, as a political activist and campaigner against corruption, he organizes kleptocracy tours

0:34.3

around London.

0:35.1

These are bus tours that showcase properties owned by foreign

0:38.8

officials directly or through offshore accounts. These foreign officials often have quite modest

0:44.3

official salaries, but their properties in London run to the tens and occasionally hundreds of

0:49.7

millions of dollars. Roman Borisovich, thank you for joining me. It's a pleasure to be here.

0:54.6

Let's start with from Russia with cash. You went undercover as a Russian official to purchase

1:00.9

property, allegedly, in London with funds that had been stolen, as you told the people,

1:06.7

from the Russian government. Can you tell us the story of that video and how it came into being?

1:13.2

I pose as a Russian fake ministry of health official. I go around looking at very expensive

1:20.2

properties, talking to the agents and admitting to them that the money I have to purchase the

1:25.8

property is dirty. The money, I've stolen the money from

1:29.4

the Russian government and not being an idiot, bragging about it, just letting them know that I can't

1:35.6

be seen, concluding the transaction, asking them for advice. How do I, first of all, of course,

1:40.8

we get them excited. I come with my supposedly girlfriend. She loves the place and all of a sudden we want to buy it immediately. Well, all small problem. My money cannot be traced to me. How do I do this? The idea was to see whether the estate agents would report an accident of money laundering.

2:03.8

Because under the UK laws, there are not reporting two criminal offenses lead to potential criminal conviction.

2:14.8

These are acts of terrorism and money laundering. My character was confessing of money laundering

2:24.2

in Russia that he was trying to hide and trying to bring the proceeds of crime onto the UK soil

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