From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in London and Manhattan, something has gone wrong. Kleptocracies, governments run by corrupt leaders that prosper at the expense of their people, are on the rise. Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland--the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich. Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations,...

"When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the...

Offers an inside look at a federal sting operation that brought down three mayors, five Orthodox rabbis, two state legislators, and the deputy mayor of New Jersey in 2009.

"Despite tremendous resources dedicated to anti-money laundering (AML), only a tiny fraction of illicit activity is prevented. The research community can help. Mark Weber (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab) explores how to map the structural and behavioral dynamics driving the technical challenge, and he reviews AML methods both current and emergent. You'll get a first look at scalable graph convolutional neural networks for forensic analysis of financial data,...