Here’s the Secret to Hiding One Billion Pounds. Ash Meets Oliver Bullough

If you had millions of ill-gotten pounds, dollars or rubles you would need to find a way of hiding where it came from and the very fact that it’s yours in the first place. It turns out that the place in the world best suited to provide this service is the UK. Oligarchs from all over the world use British financial services, overseas territories and even tube stations to hide their wealth.

 

To discuss this Ash Sarkar met Oliver Bullough, author of “Butler to the World”

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