David Lammy, the foreign secretary, claimed he was bringing the golden age of money laundering to an end as he announced UK financial sanctions against three high-profile kleptocrats and their key enablers.
Lammy said the tide was turning on corruption after a long period when the previous government allowed the role of London as a money laundering capital to continue.
Susan Hawley, executive director of Spotlight on Corruption, said: Today's bold sanctions send a welcome message that the UK is stepping up efforts to end impunity for corruption and the UK's role in enabling and harbouring dirty money.
The Foreign Office said that Dmitry Firtash has allegedly extracted hundreds of millions of pounds from Ukraine, and is alleged to have hidden millions in the UK property market.
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