On December 1, join KI at Busboys & Poets for the first event in a new debate series: The Crisis of Big Money Media: Is It Time to Rein in Kleptocrats Who Seek to Dominate the World’s Information?
News
- The U.S. says it won’t tolerate the targeting of family members to pressure graft suspects into returning to China. (Reuters)
- 178 people were arrested in a Europe-wide anti-money laundering operation. (Reuters)
- The UK’s National Crime Agency has identified and frozen £170 million in suspected illicit assets. (Evening Standard)
- The Trump Foundation received a $150,000 donation from a Ukrainian oligarch who also gave millions to the Clinton Foundation. (BuzzFeed)
- A disgruntled farmer’s planned tractor protest in Moscow illustrates how Russians view their president’s role. (WSJ)
Features
- Beijing’s reluctance to pursue the JPMorgan hiring scandal highlights thecorruption nexus between the CCP and Wall Street, says Tom Mitchell. (FT)
- Three years on, Ukrainians feel their revolution has been betrayed by another band of crooks, says Anna Nemtsova. (Daily Beast)
- David Fein has a plan to beat global money laundering. (FT)
Kleptocracy Daily will be back next week.
