We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Non-Fiction news every morning. It is arguably one of the biggest heists in modern history. Since the end of the cold war the world has ...

Tom Burgis’s study of dark global realities casts a wide net, from Washington to Moscow, Kazakhstan and the Congo In a year dominated by a US presidential election between a kleptocrat and a democrat, ...

Burgis’ previous book, The Looting Machine, was a superb chronicle of the resource curse and corruption at work in Africa. This follow-up looks at the global rise of kleptocrats, from China to Russia ...

Kleptopia is the visceral enemy of democracy and well-being and the lifeblood of despots. The world is very late in awakening to the problem, but better late than never. Kleptopia: from the Greek, ...

The FinCEN files include more than 2,000 leaked suspicious activity reports that banks had filed to the US Treasury. They show how kleptocrats hoard secrecy Five years ago, in the bar of a war ...

The official definition of Kleptopia is a place or den of thieves, where crooks and robbers rule. It is run by kleptocracy, which is the predominant way of governance in that domain, where rule of law ...