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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford

David Lammy vows to lead fight to tackle ‘dirty money’ in London

London’s “dirty money problem” would be tackled with a new transatlantic anti-corruption council under a Labour government, the shadow foreign secretary vowed on Tuesday.

David Lammy said money laundering had turned the capital’s properties into the “bitcoins of kleptocrats”, pricing nurses, teachers and other key workers out of their homes.

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