• Frank Vogl on the American Bankers and Politicians Enabling Kleptocrats Around the World

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    In this episode, Andrew talks to Frank Vogl, the author of The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption, Endangering our Democracy, about the American bankers and politicians enabling dirty money around the world.

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    Frank Vogl, former senior World Bank official and foreign business and economics correspondent for The Times of London, teaches a graduate course at Georgetown University titled, Corruption, Conflict Resolution and Security. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Partnership for Transparency Fund, and the co-founder and former Vice Chair of Transparency International, the global non-governmental anti-corruption organization. He served as President of Vogl Communications, Inc., an international communications consulting firm, from 1990 to 2018.


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