Boris Johnson told to explain why crackdown on Russian ‘dirty money’ will take 18 months

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  2. The answer is obvious, surely? The cases need to be legally watertight before you can start seizing assets from billionaires with the best lawyers available

  3. The article has some extra info, this is specifically about a register of property:

    >Keir Starmer pointed out that a register of the real foreign owners of property will not come into force until autumn 2023 at the earliest – “far too long for the Ukrainian people”.

    >“Why are we giving Putin’s cronies 18 months to quietly launder their money out of the UK property market and into another safe haven,” he demanded to know.

  4. Quite clearly pandering to all the people who profit off the oligarchs. Not to mention all the oligarchs who donated money to his party.

  5. And yet, in another thread there were people claiming that the UK was the “leading” country in all of this. Not the US, not any of the EU states, the UK was the leader.

    I got very downvoted for disagreeing.

  6. Normally he is pretty fast at organizing parties, maybe he should put the people that are so good at organizing them, looking at Russian dirt money that would speed things up considerably.

    He doesn’t need to explain crap, it’s called buying time, we all know that. 18months so that people short memory forget this tragedy and the current momentum of indignation freezes and nothing bad happens to his buddies.

    Don’t forget several parties all over Europe have been getting their fair share of dirty money from Russia.

  7. > Boris Johnson has admitted he did take part in a tennis match with the wife of a former Russian minister after she donated £160,000 to the Conservative party.

    This should tell you the reason why. In short, never trust a Tory.

  8. I cannot understand why he and his friends are not in jail… What is going on in the UK. They sold your country to russians and nobody cares enough to do something.

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