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Human Rights Abuses and Corruption: UK Sanctions

Another problematic issue with the UK lagging behind others is that sometimes people move their assets in case the sanctions come to them as well. We have seen significant cases, one of which I raised with the Foreign Secretary when she appeared before the Foreign Affairs Committee recently: in the case of Sistema, the individual simply gave half his material goods to his son and managed to escape the sanctions. Why are we so slow?

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Reference

718 c1165 

Session

2022-23

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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