Tereza Østbø Kuldova is Research Professor at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University. She is a social anthropologist and the author of six books and numerous articles. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology and of the Algorithmic Governance Research Network. She currently leads the LUXCORE project: Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud, funded by the Research Council of Norway.Jardar Østbø is Professor and Head of Programme for Russian Security and Defence Policy at the Institute for Defence Studies, Norwegian Defence University College. He is the author of The New Third Rome. Readings of a Russian Nationalist Myth (2016) and his articles have appeared in numerous journals. He is the leader of the international project RUSECOPOL (2019-2023) and a core researcher of the LUXCORE project.Thomas Raymen is Associate Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University. He is a co-founder of the Deviant Leisure Research Network, and the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm, and Ethics. He has written or edited numerous books chapters and journal articles. Raymen is a core researcher of the LUXCORE project.

“Transformative. The most important book on corruption to have emerged in decades.” Simon Winlow, Northumbria University

• Preface: Luxury, Corruption, and the Assumption of HarmlessnessChapter 1: Luxury, Anti-Corruption, and the Fantasy of WholenessChapter 2: Russian Kleptocrat Luxury, Naval’nyi’s Exposés, and the Global Anti-Policy SyndromeChapter 3: Compliance, Defiance, and the Fight against Crime through the Markets in Art, Antiquities and LuxuryChapter 4: Luxury, Encasement, and the Emptiness of Anti-Corruption’s EthicsEpilogue: Luxury, Corruption, and the Death Drive