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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Lynch

Lammy targets three wealthy oligarchs in new anti-corruption sanctions

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he is committed to taking on kleptocrats (Ben Whitley/PA) - (PA Wire)

The UK has sanctioned three oligarchs as it seeks to crack down on dirty money flowing into the country.

A woman once dubbed “Africa’s richest woman” and an oligarch who extracted hundreds of millions of pounds from the Ukrainian economy are among those subject to new travel bans and asset freezes signed off by the Foreign Secretary.

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