Download or read book Indulging Kleptocracy written by John Heathershaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, there has been an upsurge of western professionals providing financial and legal services to kleptocrats Russia and Eurasia. The United Kingdom has provided more such services than any other nation, and the effect has been to undermine democracy and good governance in both the UK and in the countries these elites come from. By cataloging through rich case studies of how kleptocrats offshored their wealth and exploited both financial deregulation and the UK's punitive libel regime, this book demonstrates what is at stake politically in the globalization of authoritarian regime practices.