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How significant are UK-based professionals in facilitating the insertion of postcommunist elites and their kleptocratic wealth into Britain? Based on the author’s forthcoming book, the talk will address this question in a study of the broad range of financial, legal, and related services provided in the UK with respect to suspicious wealth from Central Asia and the Caucasus. It shows how professional enablers indulge their postcommunist elite clients by hiding, protecting, and legitimising wealth which originates in kleptocratic environments – indulgences which range from the listing of oligarchs’ companies on the London Stock Exchange to the silencing of critics via libel action. Enriched with case studies from several of these indulgences by UK professionals on behalf of Azeri, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek elites, the book demonstrates how the enabler effect is far stronger than competing explanations in political economy and international relations.
