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Billion Dollar Whale 鯨吞億萬

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Now a #1 international bestseller, BILLION DOLLAR WHALE is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history.

In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street.

By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation.

BILLION DOLLAR WHALE has joined the ranks of Liar's Poker, Den of Thieves, and Bad Blood as a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.

 

《鯨吞億萬》如今是世界排名第一的暢銷書。《出版商週刊》,星級評論稱它是“全球級規模白領犯罪的史詩故事”,內容講述一個來自馬來西亞的青年如何藉著攀龍附鳳犯下有史以來最大的金融竊案之一。
 
2009年,賓夕法尼亞大學沃頓商學院微胖,談吐溫和的畢業生喬·羅發起了一場前所未有、膽大妄為的詐欺案,他將引發下一場全球金融體系的災難。在過去十年中,羅受到高盛集團等人的掩護,竟在全球金融業監管機構的監督下,從投資基金中蠶食鯨吞偷走了數十億美元。羅將這筆錢用來資助選舉,購買豪華房地產,舉辦香檳派對,甚至資助「華爾街之狼」等好萊塢電影的拍攝。
 
到2019年初,他的遊艇和私人飛機被當局扣押,並在馬來西亞和美國面臨刑事指控,儘管美國司法部還在調查中,羅成了國際逃犯。
 
《鯨吞億萬》已加入《老千騙局》,《極盜戰》和《惡血》的行列,成為金融界狂妄自大和貪婪的經典寓言。

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