Last week, I led a parliamentary debate on transparency in the British Overseas Territories. There is still too much dirty money, tax dodging and sanctions evasion happening through these territories – we need maximum transparency as soon as possible.

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Overseas Territories: Tax Transparency - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : ' Overseas Territories: Tax Transparency' on Wednesday 5 February 2025.

UK must require OTs&CDs to adopt the same level of UBO transparency View the Hansard contribution by Joe Powell (Kensington and Bayswater) (Lab) on Wednesday 5 February 2025 hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...

Billionaire Roman Abramovich’s Company Set Up Fake Superyacht Chartering Scheme in Apparent Attempt to Evade Millions in Taxes People working for Abramovich designed a corporate structure to give the false impression that the billionaire’s yachts were being commercially chartered to third parties, and therefore eligible for t...

Tax evasion is endemic to 🪆oligarchy stemming from the corrrupt nature of the regime. An ex-oligarch once put it to me “I have to bring so much (money) to the (Kremlin) towers it does not leave anything for the tax for the people”. Brilliant exposé of tax evasion by the icon of 🇷🇺 biznes @occrp.org

Keir Starmer Considers Closing Elon Musk Donations Loophole to Stop 'Foreign Interference' in UK Elections A rumoured $100 million donation from Musk to Nigel Farage's Reform would be banned under the proposal

Keir Starmer's Government has just appointed Baroness Margaret Hodge as its new "Anti Corruption Champion".

Hodge last week backed calls for Starmer to close the loophole allowing foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll British politicians

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Texas judge blocks anti-money laundering law's enforcement nationwide A federal judge in Texas has issued a nationwide injunction blocking the enforcement of an anti-money laundering law that requires corporate entities to disclose to the U.S. Treasury Department the identities of their real beneficial owners.

Days before the UBO disclosure deadline… Texas judge blocks anti-money laundering law's enforcement nationwide - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Here's some thoughts from me about how to keep dark money out of British politics, and why it's urgent to do it now.

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Putin may have wanted Skripal dead over what he knew, UK officials believe Ex-spy had information about Russian president’s ‘embezzlement’ of profits from metals production, intelligence official says

I always said that no one gets killed outside of 🇷🇺for merely opposing Putin. Those who knew details of his criminal finances and were about to disclose them or had already done so - only those are killed on his orders. With Scripal it wasn’t immediately obvious what he knew - now it is revealed:

After Russians are caught trying to blow up DHL planes in Europe, a DHL plane blows up in Europe.