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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 7h

5/5 Read Oliver Bullough's full analysis and sign up to the Oligarchy newsletter for weekly updates on how the super rich are changing the world for the rest of us: buff.ly/AuDxfze

Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 7h

4/5 Charges have been dropped. Sun now dines with Trump and travels into space on Jeff Bezos’s phallic rockets. He is also the prime minister of Liberland, a libertarian fantasy land that promises minimal government oversight.

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 7h

3/5 Justin Sun is another famous Chinese-born Kittitian. But the contrast with Qian couldn’t be more stark. Sun was once investigated for fraud by the SEC. And then he spent millions buying Donald Trump’s meme coins.

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 7h

2/5 She was the mastermind behind a massive scheme in China to defraud citizens, before fleeing to the U.K. on a St Kitts & Nevis passport.

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 7h

1/5 NEW OLIGARCHY: In a rare example of collaboration between Western and Chinese law enforcement agencies, writes Oliver Bullough, Zhimin Qian was nabbed in London.
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A Tale of Two Bitcoin Billionaires - Coda Story

There have been some pretty chunky fines imposed by U.S. authorities for money laundering offences over the years. HSBC paid out $1.9 billion in 2012 for moving cash for Mexican mobsters; Goldman…

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 14h

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Meet Las Marifachas: Spanish gay YouTubers allying with the far-right Vox party against Muslim immigration. Part of a 'homonationalist' trend that is fracturing Europe's progressive coalitions. buff.ly/8qtHpfi

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 1d

In Oligarchy this week: Oliver Bullough tells the tale of two bitcoin billionaires. One whose $7 billion bitcoin haul was confiscated in London. And the other, reinventing himself as a champion of liberty and individual autonomy. Sign up here: buff.ly/AuDxfze

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1/ “If Trump and his allies sometimes seem detached from reality, the joke is on reality.” Journalist Andrey Babitskiy unpacks why Trump and Putin resonate so deeply with one another, and what Americans can learn from Russia’s experience. buff.ly/wj4hbVV

The Shadow Puppet: A Russian's Warning about Trump - Coda Story

The US president is not a Kremlin asset. But Americans beware, he and Vladimir Putin are different expressions of the same worldview

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 2d

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 5d

Georgians have been protesting against their government’s growing authoritarianism for about a year now. Local elections could give the protesters a fresh burst of energy, but the future looks grim, writes George Lomsadze. buff.ly/we3hvKL

A Message from a Budding Autocracy - Coda Story

A closer look at Georgia's spiral into autocracy under Bidzina Ivanishvili serves as a warning for countries who think they are safe.

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1/ Despite a Russian invasion that left 20% of Georgia occupied, the country’s ruling party is reframing the 2008 war – not as Russian aggression, but as a provocation by Tbilisi. We unpack why this narrative shift matters and who benefits from it. buff.ly/Q3IxlNd

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 6d

What connects OpenAI's AI slop machine, Tony Blair's Gaza power grab, and Telegram's Durov accusing France of election blackmail? It's the age of unaccountable individuals who treat entire populations as laboratories.

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 6d

Tony Blair as Gaza's governor, Trump lobbyists as power brokers in Africa, and Pavel Durov battling French intelligence to influence elections - who are the unaccountable individuals who shape our world?

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 6d

5/5 Read @OliverBullough's full analysis and sign up to the Oligarchy newsletter for weekly updates on how the super rich are changing the world for the rest of us: buff.ly/5wK9cid

Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 6d

4/5 Facing legal action and even jail time though has not pushed kleptocrats’ off their gravy train. They’ve just turned to Moscow and Beijing instead.

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 6d

3/5 In better news, an NGO has played a significant role in forcing accountability in Paris where corrupt African autocrats and French politicians propped each other up.

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 6d

2/5 Though it all seems terribly old-fashioned now as crypto exchanges offer kleptocrats more options than ever to move money without accountability, helped by the Trump administration’s enthusiastic endorsement of crypto.

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 6d

1/5 NEW OLIGARCHY: The Caribbean was once the centre of the money-laundering world, writes Oliver Bullough from Montserrat.
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Derailing the Kleptocrats’ Gravy Train - Coda Story

Last week, I went to Montserrat on a research trip, the fruits of which I may one day divulge to you, if indeed there ever are any. It is a small British island in the Caribbean with the unusual…

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 7d

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 8d

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Coda Story @codastory.bsky.social · 8d

1/ Hours before her UN AI for Good talk, Abeba Birhane was told to censor references to Gaza/Palestine/Israel and replace “genocide” with “war crimes.” She walked away. Minutes before showtime, organisers backed down. buff.ly/8VyY2Nv

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