Patrick Radden Keefe on the Russian money that remade London

Podcast: Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald · ABC Australia

Opublikowano: 2026-10-16

In 2019, 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell from a riverside apartment balcony into the Thames. His death would reveal a massive dirty-money empire. Brettler's parents went looking for answers and learned their son had been living a lie, posing as the son of a Russian oligarch. Patrick Radden Keefe, Author of blockbuster books London Falling and Say Nothing, traces how one boy’s death opens onto a far bigger story: how London remade itself as a safe harbour for Russian and Gulf money.Keefe calls himself the skunk at the garden party, the outsider who names what loc...