Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption

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I liked the way the book was set out and that each section told you exactly where the events were occurring and in what year. It is quite touching to know that there are people out there that are fighting for what’s right and exposing corruption even if that means they are putting themselves in danger. Full Book Name: Very Bad People: The Inside Story of Our Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption Stalin has been widely condemned for overseeing mass repressions, ethnic cleaning, hundreds of thousands of executions, and famines which killed millions. There was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to a baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting the right amount, which he wasn’t. Angry about this, he took the farmer to court.

How their actions saw the assets of the Obiang family, leaders of Equatorial Guinea, seized. Among these assets were three Bugatti Veyron’s and a multi-million dollar mansion in California. Very Bad People reveals just how much wealth this family removed from the country and how the population continued to suffer. This extremely poor country was poor because of their leaders. Global Witness also highlights how the banks help to facilitate the money laundering of this corrupt family. A fantastic anthology of case studies showing the power that investigative journalism combined with global judicial lobbying can do to combat high-level corruption. It's two short stories--one about a girl trying to figure out who killed her mother, the other about a girl who joins a secret society when she starts private school--and they're mashed together because the girl is the same in both stories. Very impressed with the level of detail this book goes into when discussing the years of investigative work. As much as I expected corruption to be prevalent at the highest levels, I never expected it to be to this scale and from people who are put in power to support their nations, who instead choose to syphon natural resources and money from them for their own personal greed. It showed me the importance of global anti money laundering laws and how essential integrity is in the legal and banking profession - who play a key role in hiding the money corrupt people make. Despite the kind heart of the man, he didn’t understandthat the restricting cocoon and the struggle needed by the butterfly to get itself through the small opening; were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings. To prepare itself for flying once it was out of the cocoon.

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the 5th President of Iraq. He played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to power in Iraq. Hussein was executed by hanging on December 30, 2006.

Some of these stories are very short and basic. In fact some are so basic they’re most likely featured in children’s books somewhere. However, the strength of the message remains the same.

So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, although it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

I received a copy of this book from Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing and Netgalley in return for an unbiased review.If you hadn’t told me this was a non-fiction, I would have thought it was a collection of short stories – very much spy thriller stuff. I hadn’t heard of Global Witness as a company so I liked the inclusion of the beginnings of the company and their ethos, how so much can be organised in a pub! What really shines through is the dedication that the three founders truly had, they had a goal and they did everything to follow it through, even skip dive for filing cabinets. The Dean thought for a minute and said they can have the re-test after 3 days. They thanked him and said they will be ready by that time. This is a book that places a spotlight on inequality, uncovering how it is responsible for most of the corruption in the world and highlights that: Whether they’re true stories or not is another thing, as many of them are legends supposedly hundreds of years old. It is astonishing but not surprising that money is so corrupting, and through multiple cases proves that absolute power corrupts absolutely often at the expense of the less privileged and poorer members of society. The cases are well written with immense detail which I loved, and I found the book to be super interesting (doesn’t really feel like enjoyable is the right word here!) Also, a great book to dip in and out of as the cases ar