Death in Westminster
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In 2018, a man named Gyula Remes died just metres from the buildings that govern Britain, on a street surrounded by unimaginable wealth and rows of vacant properties. His death should have been impossible. Instead, it was treated as inevitable. How could this happen on Parliament’s doorstep, at the centre of one of the richest cities on the planet? In this podcast, Kojo Koram – author of Uncommon Wealth – traces Gyula’s story, asking how someone could die of homelessness in the shadow of British power, while so many nearby homes stood empty and untouched. But asking that question quickly takes him far beyond Westminster’s pavements. Death in Westminster is a four-part investigative series that begins with one life lost but soon spirals outward – from a tube station tragedy to offshore tax havens, from imperial history to modern finance. It’s a story about secrecy, stolen wealth, and how Britain’s imperial afterlife has turned its capital into a global money laundering machine – leaving people like Gyula in its wake.

To understand why Westminster is full of empty homes, Kojo has to look outside of Britain. Episode two follows the money to the Cayman Islands, one of the world’s most powerful tax havens and a British Overseas Territory.

Kojo finds out how offshore finance works, why secrecy is its greatest asset, and how Britain’s overseas empire quietly props up a global system designed to protect wealth from scrutiny. Drawing a line between shell companies in the Caribbean and spiralling property prices in London, he finds that housing has become a safety deposit box for global capital. So why don’t the politicians in Westminster do something about it?

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