A powerful, appalling, and stunningly reported exposé… It reads like fiction, but unfortunately is all too true’ She successfully defended Burgis in a libel claim brought by Kazakh-based mining giantEurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) over his 2020 book Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World.

Andrew Caldecott QC, for Burgis and HarperCollins, said in written arguments that the ‘historical allegations of corruption, which connect with the suspicious nature of the deaths … are not directed at the board of the claimant … but at the trio and/or individuals connected with the trio’: namely, the three billionaire founders of ENRC, Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and the late Alijan Ibragimov. Last year HarperCollins and author Catherine Belton faced various lawsuits from Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft and three Russian billionaires, including Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich, over the book Putin’s People (William Collins). She added in written submissions: ‘The many very serious allegations contained in the book which refer to the claimant or its owners, shareholders or officers are highly disputed.’The ENRC is suing Burgis, the Financial Times and publisher HarperCollins for libel on reporting that suggested the company was involved in the death of former employees, who had allegedly uncovered fraud, to protect its business interests, Law 360 reported in February. What the terrible suffering of people in Ukraine is showing us today is that the war is very real and, if we are going to fight it, we have to defend against corruption,’ he added. According to the German-Jewish lawyer who was the author of the theory in the 1930s, “Nazi Germany was not a straightforward totalitarian system. It retained some vestiges of the rule of law, chiefly in matters of business, so that the capitalist economy had the basic rules it needed to keep going. But the prerogative state – Hitler’s political machinery – enjoyed … ‘jurisdiction over jurisdiction.” Trump helped to construct a new 'global alliance of kleptocrats'. Their whole goal is the privatization of power You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here.

He concluded: ‘It would appear to me that the consequence of this ruling is that the claimant’s case must be dismissed.’ ENRC is also suing Kleptopia’s publisher HarperCollins, alleging that certain chapters of the the book – which is said to mention ENRC more than 250 times – mean there are at least ‘strong grounds to suspect’ it had two former employees and a geologist killed. A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November…. A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the world’s most powerful dictatorships.” – Washington Post However, Burgis and HarperCollins’ lawyers argue that, while Kleptopia ‘clearly portrays the three deaths as suspicious’, the book ‘nowhere makes an allegation of murder by anyone connected with ENRC business’. Tom Burgis, a reporter for the Financial Times, is certainly an impressive investigator. He works hard to explain how myriad financial institutions, from the Bank of New York to Merrill Lynch and HSBC, have tried to deceive regulators and wash the ill-gotten gains of countless dictators.Author Tom Burgis and publisher HarperCollins are going to the High Court on 2 nd March to take on K azakh-based mining giant Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) over allegations made in the 2020 book Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World (William Collins) . In our new world of alternate facts, corruption is “no longer a sign of a failing state, but of a state succeeding in its new purpose”. The new kleptocrats have subverted their nations’ institutions, “to seize for themselves that which rightfully belonged to the commonwealth”.

ENRC sued Burgis and publisher HarperCollins over ‘very serious’ allegations made in Kleptopia, which the former FTSE 100 company said means that it had three people murdered ‘to protect its business interests’ – claims which are ‘highly disputed’.Nixon, Simon. "Kleptopia by Tom Burgis review — exposing a global web of corruption". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 29 November 2020. He added that the meaning of the words complained of was that the three deaths‘are suspicious and the cause of death in each instance remains an open question which merits further investigation’. She also said that a ‘cross-party group of MPs’ is currently working on anti-SLAPP proposals, and that any legislation should ‘go further’ than the system currently in place in the US. Taub, Jennifer. "Review | Trump among the kleptocrats". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved 29 November 2020.