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UK is cracking down on Russian dirty money in the English capital following Ukraine invasion

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London has earned a global reputation as a financial centre for dirty Russian money, but how and why?
What is the UK doing to tackle the laundering of corrupt assets in so-called Londongrad? And what more could and should be done in the future?
Presented by Julia O'Driscoll with Theo Tait, editor of The Week magazine, and guests Robert Barrington, an anti-corruption professor at the University of Sussex, and journalist and author Oliver Bullough.
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