Labour urges crackdown on Russian money laundering through Scotland

Party says almost 17,000 shell companies based in Scotland are flouting the lawLabour has called on the government to stage a crackdown on potential Russian money laundering through opaque shell companies based in Scotland, after finding that nearly 17,000 are flouting the law. More than half of all Scottish limited partnerships (SLPs) - structures originally established in the early 1900s for farm holdings but now popular among private equity firms and investors in the former eastern bloc - hav