Piotr Grzywacz – author (independent writer and journalist) philosopher, satiric, humanist and innovator
In the wake of an unprecedented crackdown on foreigners buying luxury property with “dirty money” in America, an undercover activist secretly filmed US lawyers’ insights into loopholes on how corrupt officials could hide their identities to buy VIP property.
An undercover investigator from the anti-corruption charity Global Witness (GW), presenting himself as an “adviser to an African mining minister,” videotaped interactions with 13 US law firms, explaining how his imagined “client” could pay for luxury property in the US with his “grey money.” The film – dubbed Undercover in New York – and the report of the activist organization were published on the last day of January and were covered by The New York Times.
The golden key that opened the doors to top New York lawyers was the declared intention of the “minister” – who earned the salary of a teacher – to buy a $10 million Manhattan brownstone townhouse, a Gulfstream private jet worth $20 million, and a “[Roman] Abramovich [style] yacht” that would be “around” $200-$300 million.