'Financial skulduggery isn't just something that happens in the UK; there has been a concerted and decades-long effort to encourage it to do so'

This is an extract from 'Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals' by Oliver Bullough, published by Profile Books at £20 hardback, ebook and audiobook on 10 March

Source: OpenDemocracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/how-the-uk-helps-the-worlds-kleptocrats-and-crooks-deliberately/