Kevin Hollinrake MP Luther says it's a side hustle. He has no involvement in owning or running these firms. He just gets $250/month for signing 🇬🇧PARTNERSHIP paperwork as instructed by Alpha Consulting 8/

Dirty Russian money has not left the UK, and more needs to be done about it!

Kevin Hollinrake MP BBC News (UK) will dahlgreen Liam Byrne MP Graham Barrow So the committee chair asked the Business Minister Kevin Hollinrake MP if — given evidence of widespread abusive behaviour — he would finally ban *ALL* anonymous-ownership of 🇬🇧PARTNERSHIPS.
The minister gave a slippery non-answer👇13/

Kevin Hollinrake MP BBC News (UK) will dahlgreen From the start, nominees fronting each 🇬🇧PARTNERSHIP (lawfully) transfer control to the true owners (often Russians) through secret side agreements.
We know this because hundreds of side agreements have leaked out👇10/

Kevin Hollinrake MP Denis is one of 32 nominees linked to Seychelles corporate services provider Alpha Consulting, owned by a Russian, Viktoria Valkovskaya👇. Since 2017, these nominees (lawfully) set up and fronted 832 🇬🇧PARTNERSHIPS, according to analysis by BBC News (UK) will dahlgreen & me 9/

Kevin Hollinrake MP BBC News (UK) will dahlgreen So what are 🇬🇧PARTNERSHIPS used for? We found them hiding figures ranging from suspected Ponzi-scheme fraudsters to Putin’s inner circle. They're linked to fake heart pills, managing tankers lifting sanctioned oil, procurement frauds, sanction-busting fine art deals & more 11/

Kevin Hollinrake MP BBC News (UK) will dahlgreen Last month, the chair of a 🇬🇧Parliamentary Committee Liam Byrne MP asked a leading anti money laundering expert (@greybrow53) if these 🇬🇧PARTNERSHIPS were being used to evade sanctions.
His answer: “Yes” 12/

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Come on explain you thieves !!

What the hell is going on ??
Someone explain

Simon Bowers they don't have any secrecy laws... we also don't have apartments in Luton and Bradford registering thousands of companies and no KYC. Luxembourg's pretty secretive however.

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An interesting post. Feels like the past decade of skullduggery pouring out all over again.

Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) Duncan Hames Simon Bowers Transparency International UK Finance Uncovered FADLI ZON (Youtube: Fadli Zon Official) How does money laundering work? What is offshore financial secrecy? What has investigative journalism discovered?
Fascinating conversation with Duncan Hames, Simon Bowers of Transparency International UK and Finance Uncovered. Strong call for moving forward on transparency in beneficial ownership.

Big 👏 to Simon Bowers, maliapolitzer and Naipanoi Lepapa who made the One World Media long list for our #BabyBrokers investigation into the low-cost surrogacy industry – a story that spans Mexico, Georgia, Estonia and Cambodia. 1/4

This has been known as a problem for over a decade. The government has shown zero interest in doing anything about it. Every time we discover a new 'Laundromat', the UK is a key part of the chain. See also Unexplained Wealth Orders, which were meant to stop kleptocrat money 1/n

🔎After a first day focusing on ill-gotten gains cases, today, Simon Bowers shares its experience on investigating illicit financial flows.

2 days to lay the foundations for in-depth discussions on the possible legal path, fair restitution and the victims of corruption.

Simon Bowers Chris Bryant what can be done about this?