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Kleptocracy should be understood as a global system of wealth and power sustained primarily by the suppliers of a range of professional services in the West, including banking, real estate, philanthropy and private intelligence, according to a new book. "Indulging Kleptocracy: British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites, and the Enabling of Corruption," traces London's role as a premier money-laundering hub for corrupt elites to its growth as a financial center in the 1960s and 1970s, a period that coincided with decolonization, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union almost 20 years later. In the book, published in February, authors John...