Thursday, August 19, 2021

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The rise and fall of the oligarch-maker

How one mysterious financier came to sit at the top table of oligarchs and power.


He had glittering success – a long career managing one of the world’s biggest trust companies and making millions from Russia’s oligarchs. Even as his clients mysteriously died, one by one, he managed to stay in the shadows and remain ahead of the game.

Until undercover reporters from Al Jazeera’s I-Unit caught him on secret camera agreeing to sell an English football club to a convicted Chinese criminal, in breach of football regulations.

Who was this man? And how deep did his business connections go?

The rise and fall of the oligarch-maker | Corruption | Al Jazeera


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