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> The worrying thing is that the West gave international legitimacy to these wealthy elites, while only pointing fingers at the endemic corruption in their countries.

The whole Western commitment to anticorruption is on display on Mayfair street in London.

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Oh, you mean the part of town where an apartment is so expensive that it is out of reach even to London bankers?

Can give some more context about this situation? A web search didn't find the obvious answer, other than it was an expensive area.

It's like a half of Russian mafia owns mansions there, right in the open, laughing in the face of UK courts, and its money laundering laws.

>an expensive area

This is a bit of an understatement. If Mayfair is not the most expensive neighborhood in the world, it's close. A large number of the residents of Mayfair are former soviet state security who became oligarchs with the money to live there by pillaging their country then funneling that cash to the west with the aid of western banks including British banks.

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