Who ordered the NCA to cancel its investigation into Russian money laundering
Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
A number of MPs and Jon Benton, former head of the International Corruption Unit of the FCA have alleged that a senior Foreign Office official ordered Benton to quash its investigation of Russian money laundering in late 2018.
1. Could you confirm the name of the official(s) responsible?
2. Did the same officials order the Judiciary, the SFO and/or the FCA to quash or avoid investigations?
3. With Deutsche Bank and Danske Bank being deeply involved in Russian money laundering, and Dankse Bank having been exposed for secretly shipping bullion to its Russian clients, has the Foreign Office ordered a cover-up of accountancy discrepancies in the bullion inventories for Deutsche Bank or Danske Bank?
4. When was the Lord Chief Justice Sir Ian Burnett told that money laundering fraud should be covered up?
Yours faithfully,
Mark Taylor
FOI Request Ref: 1137-19
Dear Mark Taylor
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Dear Mr Mark Taylor,
Please find attached our response to your FOI 1137-19.
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