Oliver Bullough on financial secrecy, corruption and global power

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  My guest today is a journalist and an author

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  whose work has taken him deep into the machinery of power, money and corruption.

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  From post-Soviet states to the world's most respectable financial centres.

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  He's the author of Let Our Fame Be Great.

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  The Last Man in Russia, Moneyland and Butler to the World.

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  His new book is Everybody Loves Our Dollars

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  and it investigates the systemic failure of global efforts to combat money laundering and financial crime.

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  From the Marshall Islands and Latvia to casinos in Saipan, this explosive book exposes

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  how political horse trading and inconsistent enforcement allow dirty money to thrive.

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  Oliver Buller, welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Thanks for having me on the show.

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  It's lovely to be here.

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  Well, you know, you and I have encountered each other often throughout the years because we're both at Hay in Wales.

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  Year after year, we see each other, but as ships passing in the night, we're both sort of sitting

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  in the green room frantically reading up on our next guest and then going off to chair people.

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  So it's lovely to have some time with you,

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  but actually to talk to you about Wales because you grew up in rural Wales.

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  Yeah, I'm actually from just outside Hay-on-Way.

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