On a sunny day in Belgrade, sitting at the splendid Kafeterija, Ivor Chipkin was looking over the data from his state capture research, when he and his Serbian wife, Jelena Vidojevic, noticed a pattern.

Despite the romantic setting, the data was prosaic. Charts showed data from Eskom and also from Russian and Brazilian state power companies. ..

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