British PM makes Russian-born oligarch a lord; measuring corruption in body fat
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LORD, SPARE US…
Two weeks ago, the British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee warned everyone that Russian money was corrupting the U.K. It was not a pleasant read, with pretty much everyone being chided for their failure to take the threat from the Kremlin kleptocrats seriously enough.
Read more about the report and what it means for the British government here.
Members of the House of Lords were shilling for oligarchs. So were lawyers, accountants, PR executives, and the rest. Under-resourced enforcement agencies were out of their depth. Dirty money had become so entangled in the establishment, that it likely could not be disentangled.