Kremlin-linked oligarchs in London

Time to watch McMafia again on BBC iPlayer.

Abramovich has close family in Russia, even if he had no links with Putin he would of necessity be very wary of criticising Russia’s actions, as would any Russians in the same position. We can’t judge them by our standards. Its clear that he also loves Chelsea, and is trying to protect the future of the club as well as himself. I’m not saying this because I have any sympathy whatsoever for Abramovich, but because we really don’t understand what’s actually going on in such a corrupt regime.

Isn't this money all being converted into Bitcoin?

Whitewavemark2

Note that Abramovich has still not criticised Putin's barbaric war in Ukraine.

Let the knob sell Chelsea, then seize his equity kerrrchinnng! Thank you very much we'll take care of distribution to victims of Russian vile aggression for you.........that's what you said wasn't it?!

I also heard Bill Browder on GBNews. - very impressive. First time I’ve listened to GBN on radio.
How these oligarchs can still function/live/work in London (or as it is known to many Londongrad) eg sell their English Football clubs is beyond me. Get a grip Boris!

Dirty money in the UK

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgTjOjvczwk&list=TLGGZinWcW0QJ5kwMzAzMjAyMg&t=6s

I see that the price if 39 pieces of silver has shrunken significantly. £6k to be in hock to a Russian Oligarch. What pigmies we have now in Parliament !!!

hmm? now how do I say this?

I am thinking/wondering how complacent we British people have been, had a good lifestyle, well most of us... now showing where it has come from? what will life be like here in the UK
without all these Russian Oligarchs? just wondering..

Thank you ladies for some excellent ‘on point’ information. It’s despicable that Johnson is giving a month’s ‘grace period’ to Russian oligarchs and those connected to them - what message does that give? Action needs to be taken NOW to impound their assets and to deport them. The issues around Tory party bribery can be more fully investigated later.

Its not just politicians and royalty who have been influenced - a lot of people in this country & others who like to listen in echo chambers on Brexit, anti vax, immigration , Trump. etc etc have opinions fueled and inflamed by the disinformation coming out from the Russian troll farms.

Its not just twitter and facebook that are trolled - daily mail comments/ reddit etc all have significant contributions from troll farms - basically anywhere with a large readership.

One of the strategies for years has been to cause dissent.

People need to be more critical of where they get information from , content they are reading and which opinions they are listening to.

Whitewavemark2

Just to reinforce the message

Some 'notable' Tories who've received Putin's money - or "money from Russian sources":

Jeremy Hunt £98,972 (tipped as a future Tory leader)

Brandon Lewis £62,500

Gavin Williamson £30,000

John Whittingdale £11,000

Liam Fox £10,000

Rishi Sunak £6,000

What I want to know is 'What do they do with this money?'

(And why did Rishi Sunak, of all people need £6,000?)

Abramovich said he will give the money from the sale of Chelsea to 'all' victims of this war. He should of just said the Ukranian people, I might of believed him then.

I think that by invading Ukraine President Putin has united Europe and the rest of the world, not sure that was his ultimate game plan.

This war by Putin, has been taking place since 2014. Propaganda and working to divide his “enemy” by the instability he has caused in the USA and Europe.

We must learn very quickly how this propaganda has destabilised Europe. High profile figures like Farage and banks provided a platform for the propaganda, as well as Facebook, twitter, and even social media sites like GN. Does anyone remember all the “strange” posters before the referendum who disappeared the day after? One even taking the name of the murderer of Joe Cox.

His aim to split Europe has partially worked with brexit. The Tory party is the only party in the U.K. who was prepared to deliver this split, and they were helped by constant funding from Putin.

This has to stop.The U.K. must wise up and stop being putins stooges.

To take money and tacitly support the enemy by failing to do anything in a goodly time is the act of a traitor.

Just to reinforce the message

Some 'notable' Tories who've received Putin's money - or "money from Russian sources":

Jeremy Hunt £98,972 (tipped as a future Tory leader)

Brandon Lewis £62,500

Gavin Williamson £30,000

John Whittingdale £11,000

Liam Fox £10,000

Rishi Sunak £6,000

trisher

What if all those MPs donated the amount they were given to Ukranian relief funds? (OMG Jeremy Hunt got nearly £100,000)

Good idea.

Could a ‘Russian money received list’ also be published regarding the backing 20 year Brexit brainwashing. Someone must have been paid for all the Euromyth lies to be printed or said.

@pcaruanagalizia
My investigation into how Evgeny Lebedev became a House of Lords member, against security services advice, shows his father is a Kremlin agent and offered to act as a backchannel between Boris and Putin over the Skripal poisonings. Producer:
@gemmanewby

pod.fo/e/110207

The Oculus Files - Oligarch Hunter
@oculusfiles

@gemmanewby
I have been writing about the Oligarchs and their influence on British society for over 20 years and this son of a KGB 1st directorate officer is just one of many oligarchs who have come to intertwine their secret lives all the way upto the close friendship with PM and royalty

What if all those MPs donated the amount they were given to Ukranian relief funds? (OMG Jeremy Hunt got nearly £100,000)

Russian businesses and individuals are being given notice to enable them to get their money to safety by a Russian funded PM and governing party.

This is a disgrace.

Why is the list of oligarchs sanctioned by the EU 3 times longer than that of the U.K.?

Concerns have been raised that unregulated pro-Moscow lobbyists at the heart of Westminster are using their links to Tory MPs to gain influence and respectability.

A group formerly known as the Conservative Friends of Russia (CRF) is advertising its first in-person conference for two years next week, despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday.

Now called the Westminster Russia Forum (WRF), the group’s British organisers often appear on the Russian state broadcaster, RT. The WRF, which loudly echoes official lines from Moscow, has links with numerous Conservative MPs and other senior UK political figures.

The WRF did not respond to openDemocracy’s questions on whether the event on March 4 would still go ahead.

www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/conservative-lobbying-row-westminster-russia-forum-unregulated-ukraine/

Meanwhile, not a house, yacht or football club has been seized by the U.K. government , when now everyone should be aware that Londongrad is the world capital of Russian money laundering.

westendgirl

I fail to understand why the government are pussy-footing around when it comes to naming these people and doing it now. Also I don't see why they are not seizing their assets.
Does anyone know ?

It's because the oligarchs have been bankrolling the tory party; because they financed Brexit; because Johnson is clearly up to his eyes in the Russian mire, what with wild parties and funding and elevating the son of a KGB operative to the House of Lords.

Have people still not understood the full extent of this government's takeover by Russia?

I fail to understand why the government are pussy-footing around when it comes to naming these people and doing it now. Also I don't see why they are not seizing their assets.
Does anyone know ?