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The Law Society is the independent professional body for solicitors. We represent and support our members, promoting the highest professional standards and the rule of law. 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’. Speaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Burgis said he was ‘delighted’ with the result. He also said that the ongoing invasion of Ukraine is a ‘brutal, bloody new front in a war that has been going on for a very long time … against democracy by kleptocrats’. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. 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.

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. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World is Tom Burgis's non-fiction book about the combined effects of globalization and worldwide forces of corruption, published in 2020. The book uses narrative nonfiction and true crime tropes to detail and explore global kleptocractic effects and consequences – with Kazakhstan in particular "featur[ing] heavily in Burgis's investigation" [1] – as well as how practices of corruption (such as money laundering) entrench themselves via shell corporations, the dark money banking system, and political lobbying. Burgis anchors the book with the stories of four individuals, which the Financial Times described as "elegantly woven together and delivered in a form that makes the technicalities of finance accessible to the non-expert." [2] On 9 September 2021, it was reported that mining company Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), parent Eurasian Resources Group, had taken legal action against the publishers in respect of claims made in the book [3] that was later dismissed. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? On 9 September, 2021, it was reported that ENRC had taken legal action against HarperCollins and The Financial Times, with respect to claims made within the book and subsequent reportage. [3] The claim was dismissed in March 2022. [8] See also [ edit ] They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave behind. A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh Desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London.

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’.

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. Tom on the Spectator Book Club podcast talking about dirty money, the war in Ukraine and an attempt to suppress Kleptopia Burgis draws useful parallels between Putin’s kleptocracy and Hitler’s Germany, each home to both a “normative state” that generally respects its own laws and a “prerogative state” that violates most of them. 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’. He concluded: ‘It would appear to me that the consequence of this ruling is that the claimant’s case must be dismissed.’verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ 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. The book details the birth of kleptocracy and the links between dirty money and the UK. It was bought in a " substantial deal" by publishing director Arabella Pike in 2018 from Sophie Lambert at C&W. 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.

Kleptopia review: power, theft and Trump as leader in Putin's own image". the Guardian. 25 October 2020 . Retrieved 29 November 2020.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.’ Arabella Pike, publishing director at HarperCollins imprint William Collins, said law firms representing clients in apparent anti-SLAPP cases need to ‘find out where the money is coming [from] to pay their fees’. Kazakh-based mining giant Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) has denied ‘very serious’ allegations made in a book about so-called ‘dirty money’, which the company says means that it had three people murdered ‘to protect its business interests’. notable works of nonfiction in 2020". Washington Post. 19 November 2020 . Retrieved 29 November 2020.

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