"The confiscation of a few yachts is no solution. What if, instead, we shut it all down?"

my pitch to fight kleptocracy, in the Financial Times
themes taken from AUTOCRACY INC
https://www.ft.com/content/0876ef7a-bf88-463e-b8ca-bd9b4a11665c

The kleptocrats aren’t just stealing money. They’re stealing democracy

A shadow world of secret wealth now threatens us all. We need to shut it down, argues Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum
Boosting this despite the paywall. Good to know FTs readers are getting this. Assuming things like UN/international deals on taxation, demanding legal cooperation from tax havens etc are brought up.
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Wonderful piece by the excellent @anneapplebaum

"Just as the democratic world once built an international anti-communist alliance, so can the US and its allies build an international anti-corruption alliance, organised around the idea of transparency, accountability and fairness. This isn’t just a nice-sounding idea: it may be necessary for the preservation of liberal democracy, in the form that we know it."
https://www.ft.com/content/0876ef7a-bf88-463e-b8ca-bd9b4a11665c
The kleptocrats aren’t just stealing money. They’re stealing democracy

A shadow world of secret wealth now threatens us all. We need to shut it down, argues Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum
Yes. Their riches are dependent on everyone else getting poorer; they dare not allow electoral power to those who've worked it out.