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NEWS: London’s Westminster tackles its dirty money reputation; criticises Companies House ‘being played like a fiddle’

The Westminster Palace, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and Westminster bridge in London in a beautiful summer evening with a colorful sky after the sunset. All the historical monuments are illuminated in the night the light is reflected on the surface of Thames River. London, England, United Kingdom on August 2022 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

By Alisha Houlihan for AMLi

A LONDON council today launched a fresh bid to tackle the city’s reputation as a money laundering hotspot.

The upmarket Westminster area of London has long been characterised “as a haven for oligarch investors,” the local council admitted today.

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