Dirty money: UK’s golden visa scheme poses ‘corruption, money laundering and national security risk’

20th July 2021Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

Just days after a ‘politically exposed’ member of an elite Azerbaijan family paid a £4m settlement to the National Crime Agency following claims she had brought corrupt, stolen and embezzled funds into the UK via the ‘Azerbaijani Laundromat’, a new report from Spotlight on Corruption has highlighted major loopholes in the UK’s golden visa scheme enabling dirty money to flood into the UK; Policing Insight Deputy Editor Sarah Gibbons reports.

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