117: Patrick Alley | Blood Diamonds, Kleptocrats, Very Bad People & The Investigations Of Global Witness

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Patrick Alley is a cofounder of an organisation called Global Witness which weeds out abuses of corruption, the environment and human rights across the world. Patrick recently wrote a book documenting these experiences and it all starts with the illegal timber trade in South-East Asia funding the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and making possible all the horror and violence of the Cambodian communists. 

In this chat Patrick Alley mentions…

• Founders Story Of Global Witness
• Illegal Timber Trading
• Very Bad People
• Economics Of Global Witness
• + Much More As Well…

Links To Patrick Alley

• Global Witness
• Very Bad People

Episodes Of The Curious Worldview Podcast Mentioned.

• Martin Schibbye – Sweden’s Greatest Investigative Journalist
• Bradley Hope – 1MDB & Project Brazen.
• Jim Henry – Offshore Finance Investigative Journalist
• Nicholas Shaxson – The World Of Offshore Finance
• Oliver Bullough – Moneyland & Endless Kleptocracy

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• 00:00 – Introduction.
• 01:36 – Global Witness Founding Story Bringing Down Cambodian Communists.
• 12:42 – Why Is There Corruption?
• 15:50 – Illegal Timber Trading & Deforestation.
• 22:36 – Financial Secrecy & Offshore Finance.
• 26:42 – What Made Global Witness So Good At Investigations.
• 35:46 – Benny Steinmetz, Dan Gertler, Imelda Marcos.
• 56:13 – Blood Diamonds.
• 1:05:53 – What Is The Key To Generating Media Interest?
• 1:11:29 – Economics Of Global Witness & George Soros.
• 1:21:58 – Is The World Getting Better? Which Issue Is Most Cancerous?
• 1:25:56 – Serendipity In Patrick Alley’s Life.
• 1:27:06 – Country Patrick Is Bullish On.
• 1:28:56 – Conversation Between Any Two People Of History.

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