Tour took us all around London showing oligarch-owned properties, with brilliant speakers highlighting how London services Russia's & world's #dirtymoney💸
@margarethodge hopped on the bus to highlight the scale of problem 👇
'It is unusual indeed in a major international crisis for a journalist to be the one briefing law enforcement about what the problem is.'
Here's @OliverBullough on #Kleptotours highlighting UK law enforcement's blindspot towards Russian interference
The sheer impact of Russian #dirtymoney + the supporting ecosystem that UK provides has always been a focus for us at @allthecitizens
So we are setting out to make an investigative podcast on the topic. Support our crowdfunder➡️ donorbox.org/the-real-russi…
'But they're not just bricks and mortar, are they? They represent to me a selling off of our democracy and our rule of law to kleptocrats, autocrats beyond Russia.'
Under Boris Johnson, the Tories covered up the damning findings of the Russia report and dodged questions about their Russian benefactors the-citizens.com/2022/02/conser…
Boris Johnson was also instrumental in facilitating the extraordinary rise of Evgeny Lebedev, his close friend and the son of a former Russian spy the-citizens.com/2022/03/lebede…
@guardian@carolecadwalla "When Team Jorge worked covertly on the Nigerian presidential race in 2015 it did so alongside Cambridge Analytica" @FbdnStories
"The methods and techniques described by Team Jorge raise new challenges for big tech platforms, which have for years struggled to prevent nefarious actors spreading falsehoods or breaching the security on their platforms."
🔴 Yesterday's @Channel4News Dispatches shows how MI5 refused to investigate Russian donations even when Sergei Cristo asked them to…
We have the whole story. Help us tell it & contribute to our new investigative podcast here: donorbox.org/the-real-russi…
@Channel4News As @C4Dispatches makes clear, the Kremlin managed to infiltrate the Tory Party at its highest levels via the creation of the Conservative Friends of Russia, a lobbying group engineered to act against the Uk national interests. No one stopped them. Why?
In 2018, Russian officers attacked former double agent Colonel Skripal and his daughter, on British territory, using a nerve agent manufactured in Russia.
They knew they could count on a weak reaction from a Tory gov compromised by its Russian links.
🚨 Help us expose the truth behind the #RussiaReport cover-up! We plan to tell the story of how the Kremlin captured the British establishment in a new podcast series. But we need your help…
2 yrs ago, #RussiaReport found that Russian interference in our elections was real. How did the Kremlin become so entwined in British politics? Why did the govt turn a blind eye?
‘The only investigation that’s been done… has been by a handful of investigative journalists’
@carolecadwalla on how the security apparatus and intelligence services failed to investigate Kremlin interference in our democracy.
@carolecadwalla We plan to tell this story as an investigative podcast over six episodes. We have new evidence, we have new witnesses, we have amazing experts.
The #RussiaReport called for a full investigation into Kremlin interference in British politics. The govt refused. Why?
With the help of a whistleblower from the Conservative Party & expert witnesses we intend to expose the truth, but we need your help the-citizens.com/2023/01/new-ci…
This is the story of a cover-up. One that goes to the highest level of the British state.
With @carolecadwalla we will tell the full story of how the Kremlin captured the British establishment and how the authorities turned a blind eye
A Conservative party activist went to MI5 with evidence that senior politicians had been targeted by an alleged Russian spy. But nothing happened.