Inside the legal hunt for Putin’s hidden wealth
Martin Sixsmith investigates how Vladimir Putin and his circle built vast wealth, and the long-running legal fight to find it through courts across the globe. A timely piece of political reporting on money, power, and accountability.
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Suing The Kremlin: The Battle for Putin's Billions
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Inside the legal hunt for Putin’s hidden wealth
Martin Sixsmith investigates how Vladimir Putin and his circle built vast wealth, and the long-running legal fight to find it through courts across the globe. A timely piece of political reporting on money, power, and accountability.
- Book Synopsis
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Vladimir Putin came to power by destroying the Russian oligarchs, the entrepreneurs who grew rich during Russia’s chaotic transition from communism and exercised unseemly influence over the government of Boris Yeltsin. Putin confiscated their companies and used the profits to build the Kremlin’s war chest for the invasion of Ukraine. He and his cronies siphoned off billions for themselves.
Drawing on exclusive interviews and explosive new material, in Suing the Kremlin Martin Sixsmith tells the astonishing story of what happened to the men Putin dispossessed. Some were sent to labour camps, forced into exile or murdered. Some attempted to fight back, but with no success.
Yet for the past twenty years, a small, determined team of legal experts based in London has been pursuing Putin and his rogue state through courts across the globe. Acting on behalf of Group Menatep – the holding company founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s wealthiest oligarch – they have set out to reclaim this vast stolen fortune and to prove that even the most powerful men in the world are not beyond the reach of international law.
Ideal for readers who…
- want political non-fiction on Putin, oligarch power, and how fortunes are built and protected.
- enjoy investigative reportage driven by interviews, new material, and real-world legal stakes.
- are interested in Russia, corruption, and the money networks behind modern geopolitics.
- like courtroom and accountability narratives that follow long, complex fights across borders.
- read contemporary politics and current affairs, especially linked to the invasion of Ukraine.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781800756724
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Swift Press, (04 June 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 24 mm
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