Here in the U.K., alongside the pro Putin Ukrainian Dmitri Firtash, Angola's Isobel Dos Santos and Latvia's Aivars Lemburgs have also been sanctioned by the U.K. government today in a welcome move to crack down on oligarchs using the U.K. to launder money.

If you want to know how Labour are different to the Tories, here's an easy way to remember -

Labour : sanction oligarchs.

Tories : take donations from oligarchs.

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UK cracks down on dirty money with fresh sanctions

UK sanctions kleptocrats, firing starting gun on a new Foreign Secretary campaign against dirty money

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"Why did the UK Government agree to sell the ghost station to an oligarch already suspected of money laundering for the Russian underworld? Why did the sale go ahead despite intelligence that Firtash was a direct agent of the Kremlin and involved in a regime that had just killed 100 people in Ukraine? Why did senior Conservative Party figures accept large donations from such a man? And why hasn’t there been a full official inquiry into the scandal?"

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Underground Russian Influence: Johnson and the Ghost Station – Byline Times

Turlough Conway on how a new legal case against Boris Johnson raises more questions about money laundered in London and Conservative connections to Russia.

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