Making a Killing: The Business of War
In February 2002, Belgian authorities issued an international arrest warrant for Russian arms dealer Victor Bout on charges of money laundering and conspiracy. Days later, Bout - who allegedly also supplied weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan - sauntered into the studios of a Moscow radio station a few blocks from the Kremlin to protest his innocence.

Oiling the wheels of corruption
On July 15, 2000, the Marathon Oil Company sent $13,717,989.31 (about Sh1.08 billion) to an account in Jersey, an island in the English Channel with stringent bank secrecy laws. The owner of the Jersey account was Sonangol, Angola’s state oil company. The sum represented one-third of a bonus that the Houston, Texas-based company agreed to pay the Angolan government a year earlier for rights to pump the country’s offshore oil reserves.