The problems amongst having an oligarch equally a president is that they volition bag equally much coin equally they tin spell they are inward power. The longer they stay inward ability the ameliorate they boot the bucket at laundering their stolen money. This is especially truthful of those oligarchs who are supported past times Russia.
Take Viktor Yanukovich for example. As president of Ukraine from 2010-2014 he managed to bag billions of dollars using a global coin laundering network. Al Jazeera has used documents recovered afterwards the Ukrainian revolution to map how Victor Yanukovich was able to displace his stolen coin but about the world.
The Oligarchs is an interactive storey map which tracks the movements of the stolen coin through musical rhythm out companies inward offshore taxation havens in addition to other money-laundering hotspots but about the world, such equally the UK. As y'all progress through the storey map y'all tin follow the trail of the coin equally it is laundered build clean past times beingness passed from banking firm to banking firm in addition to taxation haven to taxation haven. None of the banks used, including those inward the United States, flagged the coin or its movements equally suspicious.
Al Jazeera suggests that the coin stolen from Ukraine past times Victor Yanukovich is directly beingness used to fuel dissent inward Ukraine.
