Noten PART I: CRISIS Chapter 1: The Thief 1 Much of Nigel Wilkins’ story is drawn from the author’s interviews with him in London in 2015 and 2016. Charlotte Martin shared memories of Nigel’s life and death. Where details of his story come from another source that is not described in the text, the attribution is given in these notes 2 Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Oxford, 1895, p.355 Chapter 2: A Feast 3 Confidential interview 4 A year and a half before this book was published, the author contacted representatives of Machkevitch and his fellow members of the Trio to ask to interview them. This request was ignored, as was another sent through a different route a few months later. In April 2020, the author sent the Trio’s representatives a list of all the significant points in their story as it is told here, inviting them to correct any that might be inaccurate. A letter came back from a law firm saying that ‘the accuracy of the information … is disputed’ but making no attempt to refute or clarify any of the points 5 Lily Galili, ‘A Kazakh oligarch trying to be a Jewish tycoon’, Haaretz, October 27, 2002, haaretz.com/1.5145478 6 Interview with Iliyas Khrapunov, Geneva, 2019 7 Rakhat Aliyev, The Godfather-in-law, translated by James Addison White, Trafo (Berlin), 2009, p.127 8 Aliyev, Godfather-in-law, pp.114–17. Behgjet Pacolli did not respond when the author sent fact-checking queries to him ahead of publication 9 Adam Jones and Christopher Thompson, ‘PwC received £50m in 1
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