I won £800 on the National Lottery. I had to take my ticket to a recognised post office and fill out an anti money laundering declaration, provide full identity, provide employers details, provide a back account to which it would be paid into. Took half an hour. They then told me the maximum I could have in cash was £500 and the remainder had to be paid by cheque into a UK bank account. That's £800 on the lottery. The lense is clearly turned the wrong way around.
Very clearly. I never knew that, about the lottery. Good practice, but it obviously needs to be focused, as you say, back at the government and their bent cronies.
This is capitalism. It does not matter where the money flows from. Even from criminal hands. The system only favours those who have the most money. Without changing capitalism, nothing will change. If Russia goes, another rich group of mobs will replace them. There will always be scarecrows waiting to eat that money and do what ever it takes to get that money. Even destroying their own people (conservatives). Capitalism: Money is God Laws is their holy book Politicians are the priests and rabbis selling the capitalist religion to us. It’s another religion. Just sold to us from a different perspective. Unfortunately we buy it.
Didn't they drop the £50 note because it facilitated large untraceable cash transactions making them easier? and yet, have a few millions or even billions and there seems to be no limits or difficulty whatsoever. I believe the push for cashless is a plan to ensure that big government controls the plebes.
Yep. But it’s not just money laundering where things are backwards. The whole tax system is a joke where so long as you’re rich enough you pay as little if any tax as possible. The whole idea of earnings and income being two different things is ridiculous, money is money. Tax the rich and investigate the shit out of them for money laundering.
Remind me again how much Tony Blair is worth these days and how dodgy were his dossiers? It's more of a problem with little hats than with traditional Christian tories.
@@hanselmansell7555 Blair's multiculturalism and mass immigration is exactly responsible for the mess we are in now. He was and is utter scum that should be in prison for his crimes.
Entire buildings that are empty for decades, having their kitchens renewed every five years ... no one living there. We have been aware of this since Bojo was mayor, but nothing is done, they're all skimming off the top, the Tories being the prime skimmers.
@@martycrow Well yes, but if you have tower blocks empty there's a knock on effect. I have friends in London who live in zone 4, they used to live in zone 2. Using properties and game pieces in an enormous Monopoly game. Belgravia may not change much but the ripples stretch out as far as the M25.
@@martycrow perhaps not, but the knock on effect is that Londoners who have enough money to buy another London house frequently buy up entire streets in poor areas like Rotherham and become slum landlords... Its pretty common....
The same thing is happening in Hungary. Property prices have trippled in the last 8 years. Hungarian oligarchs and stooges are spending craploads of stolen money on real estate.
We knew that British gov was turning blind eye, of Russians disappearing, putin setting them up, poisoning …we warned them, they helped putin become a trillionaire, nothing can stop putin now…it will comeback to bite us all…
@@LimerickWarrior1 the 3min 48sec ''Tax Dodgers'' by Jonathan Pie and the 11.15 ''Brexit: Endgame ~ The $20 Trillion Secret, with Stephen Fry'' by Pindex [ the 3.10 mark... ]
Having worked in audits for financial services, you'd be amazed how many of these firms are propped up by one or two big deals with these oligarchs with the majority of their other product lines net losers overall. Uncover a dodgy deal with a Kazakhstan mining company, director gets pissed off and calls the partner at Big 4 who tells me it's not our focus. The ramifications of these sanctions on the city will be bigger than you think, wait and see.
Having been born in Britain and tried to run an honest business there I can tell you that the only people who really flourish are those attached to the banking industry in some way. Britain is based on banking, it’s why we have so much poverty in the UK. On paper because of its banking system the UK looks rich, unfortunately for 98% of its residents it’s a different story. I doubt this will ever change.
Imagine for a moment the lives of those people, decent, hardworking people in enforcement agencies, forensic and investigative auditing, civil servants assessing information and coming up with policy options...all working year after year, knowing corruption is evil and they are helping to fight it.... Yet, year after year, their work gets put on the back burner, shelved or burnt. They grow tired. Watch the months pass by. Some move onto other jobs. Others rise through the ranks for saying less and smiling more. They grow cynical. In a few years, they can retire. And start that donkey sanctuary they always wanted to. Except that now, the donkeys are now in power and have no need for sanctuary. Certainly not from you. They have even stolen your dreams.
The oligarchy and kleptocracy net needs to be cast much further and wider. It's not only the Russians who are at it but other individuals from other nations. Love this concept for this video !
Sure, Oliver'll tell you, it's also Azerbaijani and Mexicans! They've obtained their billions illegally in Third World countries and that makes it "dirty money" - buying property in Belgravia is what magically cleanses it. Of course, when a respectable British businessman opens an offshore company *to do the exact same bloody thing* there's nothing suspicious about it. He's not "bringing in ill-gotten loot" from elsewhere, he's just swindling the British taxpayer which is completely fine. Insultingly jingoistic and shamelessly misleading, this video.
@@SockPuppet80 This video is directed at ill gotten Russian money in a very specific context - Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Other videos are available that call out British corruption and tax evasion, eg using British controlled territory for off shore banking and company registration. But you probably knew that and just wanted to express frustration. That's ok, I understand.
Tell us something we didn't already know! Johnson has the British media in his pocket so this will never come out properly! He's rotten to the core himself with dirty Russian money!
In the US the big laundering has been drug money, but has diversified, and we too have huge issues with absentee shell company property holding. The rich have shared interests with Putin. They share responsibility for the suffering and death of countless people over decades. If only Putin goes down and loses his wealth, we will have missed the point.
what can I do to make a difference? I feel so angry about the injustice to those whose money has been stolen but I don't know how to fight the injustice
THANK YOU for this. Been wanting to do that bus tour from the moment I bought MoneyLand by Oliver Bullough. Then, Covid happened. Ah the joys of youtube!
Excellent. Quick question. When did this start ? Who encouraged it and has it just snowballed in the last ten to fifteen years. I’ll bet something like this has been going on since the 1930s.
Not sure they are Putins Oligarchs?? Even if they are - didn't stop the tories welcoming them with open arms - did it?! Tories are as complicit I'm afraid!
The UK banks have all been required by Government to introduce 'anti money laundering' measures that seem to apply only to little people - e.g. a few hundred pounds given by parents or grandparents to help young people with a house or flat purchase. I was required to provide a wide array of documentary 'evidence' to demonstrate that money laundering was not the origin of small contributions. Not only was this greatly onerous for such a small amount, the information was was also collected by totally insecure means (contrary to the bank's own policies), leaving me open to identity theft in the process. Hassle the little people who pay their taxes, but turn a blind eye to illegally obtained millions or billions.
Crikey I never knew it was this extensive, thank you. When BJ had a meeting (drinks/dinner) with Russians and refused all of his security. And had No 10 redecorated in Gold wallpaper, that Truss had then 'repainted'?
Ok, so at least all of these steps seem like something that should be illegal. How can we allow people to open shell companies like this, or have an address where they are not actually located, or have banks move money for cartel's etc. I can only guess the people with the power to make or enforce these laws don't care, or are corrupt themselves
During the pandemic I lost my business I lost my home. I can’t get any credit I’m living week to week. I’ve never felt more angry than I do right now. Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution….. that what I’m gonna chant when we match to London.
I will donate to you very soon. Unless journalists and investigators like you are supported much of this scandal would be hidden and allowed to carry on.
Yeah, as soon the EU started talking about closing these loopholes, the brexit campaign started. It was really obvious if you were looking to it from the outside the UK.
@@remyborst7686 Exactly. And just look at the top players in Brexit, what kind of money they have and where they have business interests. It's as plain as day, just follow the money as they say.
The government permitted "Discreet Law", to represent Wagner Oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin in a slapp suit against the founder of Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, despite the fact Prigozhin was under sanctions. Worse the slapp suit was against Eliot Higgins personally over claims Prigozhin was linked to Wagner’s misdeeds.
Освободить оккупированную Путиным Россию. Держись Украина. Обанкротить российских олигархов. Вернуть украденные у русского народа триллионы рублей обратно русскому народу и восстановить Украину. Liberate Putin-occupied Russia. Stand strong Ukraine. Bankrupt the Russian oligarchs. Return the trillions of rubles stolen from the Russian people back to the Russian people and rebuild Ukraine.
Wanted to say that I live in Coventry and seen the billboards from LBD, these must have been put up a couple of years ago now. Now you have the moment to completely obliterate some of these conservative contenders to be next PM. Personal political leaning is centre right but it's perhaps no longer true as I voted for LDs in the last 2 GEs. The lesser evil in the candidates seem to be Sunak, although being Chancellor and PM are two different things.
I won £800 on the National Lottery. I had to take my ticket to a recognised post office and fill out an anti money laundering declaration, provide full identity, provide employers details, provide a back account to which it would be paid into. Took half an hour. They then told me the maximum I could have in cash was £500 and the remainder had to be paid by cheque into a UK bank account. That's £800 on the lottery. The lense is clearly turned the wrong way around.
Very clearly. I never knew that, about the lottery. Good practice, but it obviously needs to be focused, as you say, back at the government and their bent cronies.
This is capitalism. It does not matter where the money flows from. Even from criminal hands. The system only favours those who have the most money. Without changing capitalism, nothing will change. If Russia goes, another rich group of mobs will replace them. There will always be scarecrows waiting to eat that money and do what ever it takes to get that money. Even destroying their own people (conservatives).
Capitalism:
Money is God
Laws is their holy book
Politicians are the priests and rabbis selling the capitalist religion to us.
It’s another religion. Just sold to us from a different perspective. Unfortunately we buy it.
Didn't they drop the £50 note because it facilitated large untraceable cash transactions making them easier? and yet, have a few millions or even billions and there seems to be no limits or difficulty whatsoever.
I believe the push for cashless is a plan to ensure that big government controls the plebes.
Yep. But it’s not just money laundering where things are backwards. The whole tax system is a joke where so long as you’re rich enough you pay as little if any tax as possible. The whole idea of earnings and income being two different things is ridiculous, money is money. Tax the rich and investigate the shit out of them for money laundering.
2 simple rules for life;
No.1 - Never trust a tory
No.2 - Never forget rule number 1
Remind me again how much Tony Blair is worth these days and how dodgy were his dossiers?
It's more of a problem with little hats than with traditional Christian tories.
Immature cretinous take on things. It’s not just the torys it’s any MP
@@disposabull Whataboutism at it's very best, well done that man.
@@disposabull yeah but at least life was vaguely affordable.
@@hanselmansell7555 Blair's multiculturalism and mass immigration is exactly responsible for the mess we are in now.
He was and is utter scum that should be in prison for his crimes.
And we wonder why there's a housing crisis in the UK, unbelievable
Hmm, not directly. Not many Russians beating a path to Rotherham.
Entire buildings that are empty for decades, having their kitchens renewed every five years ... no one living there. We have been aware of this since Bojo was mayor, but nothing is done, they're all skimming off the top, the Tories being the prime skimmers.
@@martycrow Well yes, but if you have tower blocks empty there's a knock on effect. I have friends in London who live in zone 4, they used to live in zone 2. Using properties and game pieces in an enormous Monopoly game. Belgravia may not change much but the ripples stretch out as far as the M25.
@@martycrow perhaps not, but the knock on effect is that Londoners who have enough money to buy another London house frequently buy up entire streets in poor areas like Rotherham and become slum landlords... Its pretty common....
The same thing is happening in Hungary. Property prices have trippled in the last 8 years. Hungarian oligarchs and stooges are spending craploads of stolen money on real estate.
😡 Who said crime doesn’t pay . . . ? Their criminal and traitorous accomplices at Westminster will never be prosecuted.
I wonder when the penny will drop for the reasons for Brexit......
We knew that British gov was turning blind eye, of Russians disappearing, putin setting them up, poisoning …we warned them, they helped putin become a trillionaire, nothing can stop putin now…it will comeback to bite us all…
@@LimerickWarrior1 the 3min 48sec ''Tax Dodgers'' by Jonathan Pie and the 11.15 ''Brexit: Endgame ~ The $20 Trillion Secret, with Stephen Fry'' by Pindex [ the 3.10 mark... ]
And now given 18 months to move their cleansed money away...
Excellent . Meanwhile , people are having their doors kicked in by bailiffs for unpaid council tax .
Having worked in audits for financial services, you'd be amazed how many of these firms are propped up by one or two big deals with these oligarchs with the majority of their other product lines net losers overall. Uncover a dodgy deal with a Kazakhstan mining company, director gets pissed off and calls the partner at Big 4 who tells me it's not our focus. The ramifications of these sanctions on the city will be bigger than you think, wait and see.
Having been born in Britain and tried to run an honest business there I can tell you that the only people who really flourish are those attached to the banking industry in some way.
Britain is based on banking, it’s why we have so much poverty in the UK.
On paper because of its banking system the UK looks rich, unfortunately for 98% of its residents it’s a different story.
I doubt this will ever change.
Compare and contrast with Switzerland - just as corrupt but a much higher standard of living.
Time for a new "peasants" revolt I think.
Truth, most folk aren't even aware the bank of England is a privately owned institution and so is The City Of London.
@@ianmangham4570 if by most folk you mean toddlers, then yeah " most folk" don't know.
@@sinofman2479 Fuzzy wuzzy was a woman!
Makes the Kray brothers look honest by comparison.
They were
Everybody needs to spread this channel around.
Boris, will do nothing to hurt his friends in Russia.
Imagine for a moment the lives of those people, decent, hardworking people in enforcement agencies, forensic and investigative auditing, civil servants assessing information and coming up with policy options...all working year after year, knowing corruption is evil and they are helping to fight it....
Yet, year after year, their work gets put on the back burner, shelved or burnt.
They grow tired. Watch the months pass by. Some move onto other jobs. Others rise through the ranks for saying less and smiling more.
They grow cynical. In a few years, they can retire.
And start that donkey sanctuary they always wanted to.
Except that now, the donkeys are now in power and have no need for sanctuary. Certainly not from you.
They have even stolen your dreams.
The IRS in the US, also criminally underfunded...
The oligarchy and kleptocracy net needs to be cast much further and wider. It's not only the Russians who are at it but other individuals from other nations. Love this concept for this video !
Keep going guys. Show what is really going on, not just what THOSE in power want people to think 🤔. Expose them ALL.
Plus this video needs to be shown on national TV.
Sure, Oliver'll tell you, it's also Azerbaijani and Mexicans! They've obtained their billions illegally in Third World countries and that makes it "dirty money" - buying property in Belgravia is what magically cleanses it.
Of course, when a respectable British businessman opens an offshore company *to do the exact same bloody thing* there's nothing suspicious about it. He's not "bringing in ill-gotten loot" from elsewhere, he's just swindling the British taxpayer which is completely fine.
Insultingly jingoistic and shamelessly misleading, this video.
@@donnaweston7697 Now you're talking. Everyday forever, with updates of course
@@SockPuppet80 This video is directed at ill gotten Russian money in a very specific context - Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Other videos are available that call out British corruption and tax evasion, eg using British controlled territory for off shore banking and company registration. But you probably knew that and just wanted to express frustration. That's ok, I understand.
I like how you ended up at the Russian embassy.
Johnson will do sod all after all he won’t want to defund the Tory’s
How have so few people seen this when it is so important that everybody should?
Outstanding!!!
Excellent work again, well done, will share...
Phew! We just got out of the EU in time as they were going to clamp down on money laundering in Europe. 🤔🤫
Much love from Slovakia, thank you for this work!
Excellent video.johnson doesn't WANT to sort this. He and his party benefit from the situation the way things are. Corruption is a way of life.
Brilliant video, and a trenchant analysis of ‘Londongrad’.
Keep up the good work
Yes and not only the Russians as you point out. The money go round is enormous, that's the world we live in.
Tell us something we didn't already know! Johnson has the British media in his pocket so this will never come out properly! He's rotten to the core himself with dirty Russian money!
Excellent video, great research, and a very powerful message.
Brilliant work! Shared this video everywhere possible!
How telling that we never see such a clear breakdown of this huge corruption .
The tv companies are almost complicit by their silence.
Brilliant video, fantastically insightful... And depressing... Great work!
In the US the big laundering has been drug money, but has diversified, and we too have huge issues with absentee shell company property holding. The rich have shared interests with Putin. They share responsibility for the suffering and death of countless people over decades. If only Putin goes down and loses his wealth, we will have missed the point.
But the scale of money laundering in London dwarfs even that of New York. It's huge.
Absolutely brilliant work. Hope more people get to see this.
Brilliant analysis, depressing indictment of our greedy, feeble minded, cowardly politicians and institutions
Brave man. Unfortunately most of people still don’t realise the danger what is on stake. When they eventually will do, I’m afraid it’s too late...
Excellent we need to keep exposing this.
what can I do to make a difference? I feel so angry about the injustice to those whose money has been stolen but I don't know how to fight the injustice
As far as political donations from Russians are concerned, that old axiom applies. Never stand between a politician and a bucket of money.
THANK YOU for this. Been wanting to do that bus tour from the moment I bought MoneyLand by Oliver Bullough. Then, Covid happened.
Ah the joys of youtube!
Excellent.
Quick question. When did this start ? Who encouraged it and has it just snowballed in the last ten to fifteen years.
I’ll bet something like this has been going on since the 1930s.
Even before that. London attracts criminals.
Respect !
An excellent presentation - keep up the good work.
Wow the checks UK do on their own when selling a house is intense Iam angry 😡
This needs more views!
Not sure they are Putins Oligarchs?? Even if they are - didn't stop the tories welcoming them with open arms - did it?! Tories are as complicit I'm afraid!
Just like a bad game of monopoly! Good for LBD. Please share. Barb
Amazing work, never stop!
Thank you!!!
My gob is well and truly smacked. I'm binge watching these in order from latest one and then backwards. Looks like I'm in for more of this.
Excellent. A brilliant summary.
crime pays off. it really does, you just need to know when to quit.
Absolutely.
Putin's " London My beautiful Laundry"
So very well presented . Thankyou .
Been saying this for decades and they called us communists and anarchists!
Ain't done nothing if you ain't been called a red
Brilliant video exposing the greedy underbelly that fuels Britain’s true source of massive wealth. Who knew being a laundromat was so lucrative?
Was this the motive for Brexit?
That’s why they funded “Leave.”
YES! The EU have regulated slimy money and tax fraud 31 Dec 2020. Coincidence re the deadline to GET BREXIT DONE? Methinks niet.
Great content as always.
Fantastically informative!
What a spiders web. The hornets will just fly straight though it.
Am sure it's not just Russians but many other countries.
The UK banks have all been required by Government to introduce 'anti money laundering' measures that seem to apply only to little people - e.g. a few hundred pounds given by parents or grandparents to help young people with a house or flat purchase. I was required to provide a wide array of documentary 'evidence' to demonstrate that money laundering was not the origin of small contributions. Not only was this greatly onerous for such a small amount, the information was was also collected by totally insecure means (contrary to the bank's own policies), leaving me open to identity theft in the process. Hassle the little people who pay their taxes, but turn a blind eye to illegally obtained millions or billions.
Criminal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This needs to be stopped!!!!!
Just found this channel, one word brilliant.
Never stand between a politician and a bucket of money.
Crikey I never knew it was this extensive, thank you.
When BJ had a meeting (drinks/dinner) with Russians and refused all of his security. And had No 10 redecorated in Gold wallpaper, that Truss had then 'repainted'?
Ok, so at least all of these steps seem like something that should be illegal. How can we allow people to open shell companies like this, or have an address where they are not actually located, or have banks move money for cartel's etc. I can only guess the people with the power to make or enforce these laws don't care, or are corrupt themselves
During the pandemic I lost my business I lost my home. I can’t get any credit I’m living week to week. I’ve never felt more angry than I do right now. Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution….. that what I’m gonna chant when we match to London.
I will donate to you very soon. Unless journalists and investigators like you are supported much of this scandal would be hidden and allowed to carry on.
Its kept the two party but mostly conservative system in place in the UK too
This is the real reason for Brexit, they wanted out of the EU because of new EU anti money laundering laws.
No more complex than that
Yeah, as soon the EU started talking about closing these loopholes, the brexit campaign started. It was really obvious if you were looking to it from the outside the UK.
@@remyborst7686 Exactly. And just look at the top players in Brexit, what kind of money they have and where they have business interests. It's as plain as day, just follow the money as they say.
brilliant work
great vid
Hardly surprising, when those in power are getting a cut of the dosh.
The government permitted "Discreet Law", to represent Wagner Oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin in a slapp suit against the founder of Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, despite the fact Prigozhin was under sanctions. Worse the slapp suit was against Eliot Higgins personally over claims Prigozhin was linked to Wagner’s misdeeds.
They’ll do nothing.
Thanks for this, just hid £800 million 😁👍
Brilliant work - please be careful which enemies you choose though!
The words no, shit & Sherlock spring to mind! This was going on in the 1980's. You're a bit late!😂
Great video
I love this channel
Putin's cronies - what about the rest?
Освободить оккупированную Путиным Россию. Держись Украина. Обанкротить российских олигархов. Вернуть украденные у русского народа триллионы рублей обратно русскому народу и восстановить Украину.
Liberate Putin-occupied Russia. Stand strong Ukraine. Bankrupt the Russian oligarchs. Return the trillions of rubles stolen from the Russian people back to the Russian people and rebuild Ukraine.
Those trillions of rubles are, unfortunately, only worth about 253 dollars now.
@@daveboston5929 Pay me in DOLLARS...Or I'll just take your stuff.
@@daveboston5929 not anymore their not
I got a little bit of inheritance from my mother and had to prove to my bank where it had come from!!!
Kemp House is an NHS building connected to Moorfields.
You're looking at the wrong Kemp House. Not clever, are you?
Snatch them, when are the Ukrainians moving in
… and what are the specifics of the real action that is required?
Welcome to Londongrad
1000th like. So satisfying seeing that '999' change to '1K'
amazing
Goes to show crime really does pay
Watch the wealth running on eSysman Super Yachts channel.
How do you sign up to work for Russian billionaires? Asking for a friend
but its good for the economy
What do you expect when the country’s monarch is the biggest smack dealer in the world
I'm sure the Saudi's said to Boris....Give us a call when you re-open the laundromat
Wanted to say that I live in Coventry and seen the billboards from LBD, these must have been put up a couple of years ago now. Now you have the moment to completely obliterate some of these conservative contenders to be next PM. Personal political leaning is centre right but it's perhaps no longer true as I voted for LDs in the last 2 GEs. The lesser evil in the candidates seem to be Sunak, although being Chancellor and PM are two different things.
WTAF
No oligarchs in Ukraine, of course.
Thank you guys
SUBSCRIBE EVERYONE!
Damn!!!!!!!!!
Red square
Moscow on the Thames
What is youngest billionaire in Britain Duke of Westminster maybe that guy needs a video.
Boris will fix it.