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Monday, May 21, 2018
Rotten Roubles: Dirty Russian money is a threat to national security
Only two big western economies allow the large-scale ownership of assets such as land and mansions to be anonymous. One is the United States. The other is Britain, and it is an open secret in Moscow which of the two is a soft touch for oligarchs wishing to invest not only anonymously but without much risk of scrutiny.
For most of the post-Cold War period London has been a bolthole for Kremlin-connected fortunes. Its property market, schools, banks, legal firms and football clubs have been a magnet for Russian billionaires who in turn have enriched an entire class of grateful City professionals.
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