>Duncan Hames, Transparency International UK’s director of policy, said the most significant step was a new register requiring anonymous foreign owners of British property to reveal their identities to stop some from hiding behind shell firms. London has long been a top destination for Russian money and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to crack down on those using the capital as a luxury playground, enjoying upmarket hotels and educating their children at fee-paying schools. The new law will introduce the Register of Overseas Entities but will give anonymous foreign owners of property six months to reveal their real identities – a measure the opposition Labour Party gave them too much time to move assets elsewhere.
Believe it when we can see it
The tories won’t do a thing. They don’t bite the hand that feeds them.
Meanwhile, Russian banks Gazprombank i Sbierbank have not been cut off from SWIFT, Switzerland has already agreed to Bitcoin transactions with the former a year ago, and Germany supplies Belarus with products that most likely go to the Russian army. Way to go! The politics of pragmatism will not keep us warm in an atomic winter.
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>Duncan Hames, Transparency International UK’s director of policy, said the most significant step was a new register requiring anonymous foreign owners of British property to reveal their identities to stop some from hiding behind shell firms. London has long been a top destination for Russian money and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to crack down on those using the capital as a luxury playground, enjoying upmarket hotels and educating their children at fee-paying schools. The new law will introduce the Register of Overseas Entities but will give anonymous foreign owners of property six months to reveal their real identities – a measure the opposition Labour Party gave them too much time to move assets elsewhere.
Believe it when we can see it
The tories won’t do a thing. They don’t bite the hand that feeds them.
Meanwhile, Russian banks Gazprombank i Sbierbank have not been cut off from SWIFT, Switzerland has already agreed to Bitcoin transactions with the former a year ago, and Germany supplies Belarus with products that most likely go to the Russian army. Way to go! The politics of pragmatism will not keep us warm in an atomic winter.