Switzerland unveils money laundering clampdown
Alternative headline: Switzerland Unveils Swiss Banking Clampdown Switzerland unveils money laundering clampdown – https://on.ft.com/3qY2qFO via @FT
Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo
Is the Supreme Court for sale? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/clarence-thomas-aide-venmo-payments-lawyers-supreme-court?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Potential Coup on Russia
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rod-dubitsky-0aa94118_ed-krassenstein-on-twitter-activity-7078312424646303744-pb6J?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Now the UK is finally tackling ‘Londongrad’, it’s time the US upped its game
Now the UK is finally tackling ‘Londongrad’, it’s time the US upped its game – https://on.ft.com/3qb1ZXX via @FT
King Charles urged to push for breakup of UK’s ‘network of satellite tax havens’
I doubt anything will change. Especially post Brexit, the network of UK tax havens is a key British industry. UK will no sooner give up tax havens that Saudi Arabia will give up oil. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/30/king-charles-urged-to-push-for-break-up-of-uks-network-of-satellite-tax-havens?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Washington and London crack down on financial fixers for Russian oligarchs
Washington and London crack down on financial fixers for Russian oligarchs – https://on.ft.com/41rRsVV via @FT
Thousands of offshore companies with UK property still not stating real owners
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/30/offshore-companies-with-uk-property-not-stating-beneficial-owners?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
UK admits it has no idea how much tax is being evaded through offshore assets
People in the UK are struggling, yet the UK blindly ignores the vast tax avoidance happening under their nose. If the UK doesn’t know how much their own tax havens rob from the national treasury, imagine the rest of the world
How London became the dirty money capital of the world | FT Film
Great doc from the Financial Times. “Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all stripes, but critics say the ‘London laundromat’ cleans dirty money from Russia and across the globe. The FT examines why it took Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to put the issue in …
Russia can only afford its war in Ukraine because Britain helped raise the cash
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/08/britain-war-in-ukraine-britain-putin-regime?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other