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The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire - How Britain transformed from an imperial power to a financial power. The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (2017) Director: Michael Oswald Writers: Michael Oswald(screenplay) Stars: Joel Benjamin, Peter Cain, John Christensen Genre: Documentary Country: United Kingdom, United States Language: English Release Date: 5 May 2017 (Mexico) Storyline: The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire, is a documentary film that shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions and Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of international finance. How did this come about, and what impact does it have on the world today? This is what the Spider's Web sets out to investigate. With contributions from leading experts, academics, former insiders

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The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | How London Runs the World's Dirty Money | 4K
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