How Mining Tycoons Are Trying to Foil a Big U.K. Bribery Probe
A trio of Kazakh oligarchs accuse their London lawyer of conspiring with Britain’s top cop
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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It’s a faint echo of the defense being floated by targets of the Mueller probe in the U.S.—an unaccountable circle of bureaucrats manipulating the system to their own ends.
But in London, it’s the last ditch effort by a trio of Kazakh oligarchs to derail the U.K.’s biggest bribery investigation.