AURORA RU’s Reviews > Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World > Status Update

"(Money is international, Law is not). Moneyland is simply the inevitable result of globalisation (..). Moneyland is country that subverts traditional national states: it is everywhere and nowhere, somewhere 'in the cloud', a new development - a legal construct that is divorced from any place on the map. We cannot see it now, but the stronger it becomes, the more obvious it will be."

"I'm happy to criticise the president, the prime minister, I'm happy to do a lot," Gluzman said. "But this, and I'll say it openly, this scared me. I understood that these were bandits without any political beliefs. Their only belief was in money." Ukrainians were accustomed to bad behaviour from their officials, but even the most hardened cynic was appalled by the idea that profits were made from the most desperate"

"Imagine if it was as easy to register people as it is to register companies - you fill in an online form, pay £13 and within a couple of days your opportunities for fraud are virtually unlimited. Your "person" could claim benefits, enter business agreements, open bank accounts, and then you could kill them off, leaving the whole mess behind you"

Nesen vienā rakstā Latvija arī tika nosaukta par ofšoru... es vēl nesaprotu tās shēmas..
"Money stolen from the Russian budget by corrupt policemen, in a crime exposed by the anti-corruption lawer Sergei Magnitsky, passed through Latvian bank accounts owned eventually in Nevis" (Latvian banks - the Russian laundromat)

Eiromaidans Ukrainā. Autors kopā ar ukraiņiem dodas ekskursijā pa Yanukoviča villām, šokā un izbrīnā. "Ukraine is such a mess!" - Ukrainā, jā, viss nolaists līdz klinķim, izzagts, bet te - tā kā laupītāja alā, viss kopā: zeltlietas, antivariāts, pikasso, kičs un reti bibliogrāfiski izdevumi. Kā, jūs nezinājāt? - viņš prasa vietējam ukrainim, a šis saka: A jūs? Šis īpašums jau pieder jūsējiem - reģistrēts Britu salās

Grāmata sākas ar autora stāstu, kā 1991.gadā viņam bijis tikai 13 un viņš jutis skaudru skaudību, ka nevar būt klāt notikumos, kad nobruka Padomju Savienība. Bet, kad pabeidzis universitāti, tad gan - pase zobos un uz Sanktpēterburgu, pēc tam - Kirgīziju un Kaukāzu. Nash chelovek!