How to Hide A Million Pounds | Downstream

If you had millions of 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 meet Oliver Bullough, author of "Butler to the World: The book the oligarchs don’t want you to read - how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals"
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[rmboyd]

This is by far one of my favourite interviews, confirming what we all knew, and it really explains why they needed to shut Jeremy Corbyn down.

[s.p.]

I love my Tysky episodes for news, but Downstream is rapidly becoming a my favourite. Fantastic work, Thanks. .

[stevenredpath]

The UK government is great at taxing earnings (especially wages) but is poor at taxing wealth and it’s not by error. Just ask the dukes of Westminster.

[lisaglaze]

It always amazes me that bodies responsible to monitor fraud, adherence to regulations etc are working on a shoestring when they obviously could be extremely profitable if they were doing it well

[TheInternetIsDeadToMe]

Such a great conversation. Really appreciate your work guys.

[Rita]

A fascinating conversation. Thank you both.

[georgeloizou]

Brilliant! By far and away the most impressive and informative interview I have seen on Novara…Ash is superb…Oliver Bullough so impressive

[Listlesscheese]

Oliver Bullough and Novara, this is going to be great.

[shakthidhasan]

This guy is what makes Britain great. Kudos to the conversation and the interviewer.

[alfiecdyson]

Get Oliver and Gary Stevenson in a room together please

[darkangel]

This has to be one of the best interviews by Novara media ❤

[jesuisjamaiscontent]

Yes Oliver, it was brilliant, and in addition educational and compelling viewing. Thank you, and thank you Ash for your interview skills.

[antony]

I went into this preparing to be thoroughly bored but sat fascinated and fully engaged for an hour and ten minutes! Brilliant interview 💛

[Russellsouthey]

Fantastic work Ash! Well done. Informative and entertaining..

[PurityVendetta]

Now there's good content and there's excellent content. This is most definitely the latter. I need to watch this several times to allow the details to soak in and also try to pick up the books mentioned.

All I need them is lots of dodgy money... 😳

[tiagomestre]

this is the real reason brexit happened

[lizhughes]

Fantastic convo and then I find out he's Welsh too! 🥰 Diolch! X x

[bec_r_r]

I don’t want to put a jinx on your show but Friendly Jordies in Australia did a video about money laundering. The video was taken down and the Gambling lobby have called him contempt of court plus plus plus someone firebombed his house twice, well once was a mistake they got the neighbours house. Apparently the court put his address in court documents plus our media flashed his address everywhere.

I’ll watch the video for sure before the s**t hits the fan. I just hope your society is more egalitarian than ours where gambling is concerned. Btw gambling is a big problem in Australia if you didn’t notice. Lol

[russellbrown]

Please can you start adding a bibliography? You mentioned at least 4 books in the episode that sounds like things I'd like to read.

[PortilloMoment]

Many thanks for that. Absorbing and informative.