MPs tonight backed new laws the government claims will finally allow “hundreds” of Russian oligarchs to be sanctioned - as soon as next Tuesday.
But furious critics blasted loopholes in the Economic Crime Bill - because Tory MPs voted down desperate bids to toughen it up.
MPs rushed through the first stages of the Bill aimed at targeting Moscow-linked illicit cash in the UK, sheltered in property, land and assets, and often purchased via secretive shell companies.
