London Laundromat

Question Of Sport – If CFC Has Been Confiscated Why Not Man City?

If the UK government is at last serious about dealing with foreign corrupt practices it should not stop at sanctioning Abramovich or even just Russian oligarchs ……

Foreign Financing In UK Politics Sparks Growing Concern

Sarawak Report has been following the global money trail as kleptocrat and autocrat cash funnels through the off-shore system and into advanced ‘concierge’ economies where professionals serve and shield those who have pillaged their own countries. In 2022 we will occasionally shine a light on the so-called ‘London Laundromat’ to warn that corruption is an infectious disease that impacts and destroys governance beyond borders……

Lords Bought: Are Foreign Money Trails Fuelling UK Politics?

It’s not on the scale of Malaysian political corruption, but the UK public are rightly concerned the Conservative Party is on a slippery slope as the ‘Cash For Honours’ row engulfs the government. Based on links to 1MDB Sarawak Report asks how one former party vice-treasurer was ennobled at the tender age of 38 after an apparent donation of just £125,000 and questions whether foreign money flowed behind the scenes?……

Why Newcastle’s ‘Sportswash’ Looks Decidedly Grubby

Football glory has become one of the most sought after forms of reputation laundering by the super-wealthy with image problems. Russian oligarchs, US corporate raiders and now Arab dictators with human rights issues have been crowding to buy up UK clubs as they attempt to re-brand. Sarawak Report’s examination of Malaysian corruption has led it to the Middle East and also to the potentially cancerous extension of such dirty money into the heart of UK decision making….

Tarek’s Treasure Trove Tagged In London

Who is left surprised to learn that over US$340 million of 1MDB’s misappropriated cash has apparently been found nestling in the client account of a major US law firm and that there is more sitting in one of the UK’s top banks?…..

Cameron’s Conservatives Should Show Caution Before They Suck Up To Najib

Relations between the UK and Malaysia should naturally be warm. However, as Prime Minister Najib Razak makes his way towards the UK this week, David Cameron’s welcome party should concentrate on that friendship with the Malaysian people, rather than selfish financial opportunities. After all, Najib represents a discredited minority government, which everyone knows would have

“Stop Defending The Corrupt” – London Lawyers Told To Drop Taib

Mishcon de Reya, the London lawyers who represent Taib and his son-in-law Sean Murray and firms Sakto, Sakti and Ridgeford Properties, have been warned to “stop defending the corrupt” and to ditch their most controversial clients. In a statement issued today the Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) point out: “Mishcon de Reya’s relationship with the Taib

Billions Abroad ! – Questions over Taib’s Contacts with Foreign Property Tycoons

The man pictured in the party-buggy sitting next to the Deputy Chief Minister, Alfred Jabu, is a Greek called Achilleas Kallakis.  This was in  April 2008 and Kallakis was already a man with a criminal record.  Back in 1995 he and a colleague,  Alexander Williams, had been convicted in the UK of selling false Hong Kong passports for RM 100 thousand each and also

‘Hide Park’ ! – The Taibs’ London Bolthole

It is undoubtedly one of the smartest addresses in London.  Hampshire House is an enormous and gracious period building overlooking the world-famous Hyde Park, just a stone’s throw from Marble Arch and Oxford Street.  It contains some of the largest apartments in the capital, including the regular ‘pied a terre’ of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud. The ground

Multi-million dollar complex

Exclusive – Taibs’ Foreign Property Portfolio

Canadian properties worth in excess of a hundred million dollars Twin glass towers and a swish shopping complex at Preston Square in downtown Ottawa form just part of an enormous foreign property portfolio controlled in Canada by the family of Sarawak Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, according to our exclusive investigations. These buildings alone are worth at least one hundred million dollars and generate a

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