The UK is a "honey pot" for "corrupt actors" who "seek to launder their dirty money", Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said today.
The Foreign Secretary made the remarks in the Commons while announcing sanctions on 22 people involved in corruption cases in Russia, South Africa, South Sudan and Latin America.
They were targeted with asset freezes and travel bans, in the first wave of sanctions under the government's new global anti-corruption regime.
Fourteen of those hit with sanctions were involved in one of the largest tax frauds in recent Russian history, as exposed by the late lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. "Whatever the particular circumstances, at the heart of this lies the same debilitating cycle of behaviour - corrupt officials ripping
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