Nick Shaxson ■ Quote of the day: funny money kills people

Quote of the day: funny money kills people

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16 December 2014

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Quote of the day, from Elena Panfilova, the Moscow head of Transparency International, on élite Russian money stashed in Europe:

“The missing money means schools not funded properly, hospitals not built. For Russian people it’s not funny money, it’s literally killing them.”

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Nick Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book Poisoned Wells about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, and the more recent Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the Men who Stole the World, published by Random House in January 2011. He lives in Berlin.

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