Russia's Laundromat, Part 3/3: Putin's Butler? | Investigation

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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All around the world, dirty money pollutes public and private life. Those who wield it are a diverse cast of businessmen, politicians, and criminals - and sometimes, they're all three. In this anthology, Vanessa Kirby meets the investigators using open source intelligence to expose the murky relationship between international institutions and Russian financial crime. In Part 3, author and journalist Oliver Bullough exposes the UK's role as a facilitator of questionable foreign wealth - a butler to the world. When a shady Ukrainian businessman with ties to the Kremlin embeds himself at the heart of the British establishment, Oliver is determined to investigate his true allegiances. Could YOU follow the breadcrumbs? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs. Music by Nick Ryan

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:05.2	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:09.6	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:12.4	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:19.2	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:24.4	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:27.6	And what would you do in their position?
0:32.8	I'm Finessa Kirby and this is True Spies, Russia's laundromat.
0:38.8	Part 3. Putin's Butler.
0:48.4	In the past two episodes of True Spies, you've heard from Russian investigators
0:52.8	getting to the heart of the West's dirty money problem.
0:56.4	Stolen fortunes typically funneled through intricate networks of banks,
1:01.0	accountants and lawyers, sheltered in offshore accounts and businesses.
1:06.8	Very often used to purchase lavish real estate in some of the most expensive cities in the world.
1:14.2	But on occasion, stolen money is used to buy some unconventional things.
1:18.8	And when news broke that a wealthy Ukrainian had purchased a London tube station,
1:24.4	that's when this week's True Spies set to work.
1:32.0	It's not just a little pokey tube station. It's a real sizeable property.
1:36.0	This tube station, it used to be a Ministry of Defence office and it has a big,
1:39.2	big, what would have been a garage for military vehicles.
1:41.6	And that's to my mind the most clear cut demonstration of how in Britain basically everything is for sale.
1:48.4	You know, membership of the establishment is for sale.
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