Estate of former Russian senator Vladimir Sloutsker, who died in September, ordered to pay £25m to his ex-wife A political ally of Vladimir Putin who declared poverty to a London divorce court was hiding £217m worth of property and land in London and Moscow as well as £21m in investments and a £4m art collection, a judge has found. Vladimir Sloutsker, 69, who died in September from cancer, fought until the end to hide his assets despite previously enjoying “a lifestyle consistent with extreme wealth” with his ex-wife and children, including a nine-bedroom £45m family home in South Kensington in central London. Continue reading...

Authorities seized London properties — and dinosaur skeletons — from a man previously wanted for questioning in relation to a massive money laundering investigation in Singapore. Meanwhile, a fugitive...

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Special report: Uniserve was paid £1.4bn for Covid contracts that included supply of £178.5m in never-used equipment When Mrs Justice Cockerill handed down her judgment in the high court against PPE Medpro, the company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone, for supplying unsafe personal protective equipment during the pandemic, her findings were a landmark in a five-year saga that cast the opaque world of government deal making into stark light. PPE Medpro was ordered to refund the full £122m that the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) paid for unusable gowns in the summer of 2020, as Boris Johnson’s government scrambled to refill the UK’s depleted stocks. Continue reading...

Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic prospects.

As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...

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En plein vote du budget, un constat s’impose : la France laisse filer des milliards par stratégie populiste et à des fins électorales. ...

A surge in drone activity across Belgium and Europe has heightened fears of coordinated Russian hybrid operations

Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner

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Source says Russia ‘very probably’ responsible amid surge in incursions into European airspace since mid-September Belgium’s national security council will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday after drone sightings at airports caused chaos for travellers and raised security concerns. Arrivals and departures were halted for several hours on Tuesday evening at Belgium’s busiest airport, Brussels, leading to the cancellation of dozens of flights. The skies were also closed over Liège airport, an important hub for freight transport, leading to further cancellations, delays and diversions. Continue reading...