Looting With Putin
City of London & the Moscow gold rush
By Richard Brooks
In the wake of the Salisbury nerve agent attack, MPs investigating how Russian president Vladimir Putin and allies have been “hiding and laundering their corrupt assets in London” concluded it was still “business as usual”. Given the boast that London’s pre- eminence as a financial centre is based on the rule of law, how did the capital become a magnet for so much dirty money, sustaining corrupt regimes in Moscow and beyond?
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The UK's freeports are hives of inactivity
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The Duchy of Cornwall's "feudal rule" on the Scilly Isles
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Turmoil at the Guardian over the Observer sale
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