10-1-19 In 2017 Bellingcat and Transparency International UK published their joint report, “Offshore in the UK”, describing the phenomenon of Scottish Limited Partnerships (“SLPs”) and their use as a mechanism in global money scandals and a range of illicit activities....a lack of regulation allowed thousands of opaquely owned partnerships, typically with no tangible link to the Uk, to flourish over a seven year period. We do not have the details of the business activities of these SLPs, who controlled them, or who their true beneficial owners are.
The requirement to file Person of Significant Control documents came into force in 2017, this was followed by a significant drop in SLP registrations.
To better understand the boom in SLP registrations, their links to illicit activity, their most prolific presenters and how the government has responded, Bellingcat has examined the filings for 14,658 SLPs and the groups of presenters who have been responsible for bulk registering thousands of anonymously owned partnerships between January 2015 and July 2019. We have worked with journalist and researcher Graham Stack to identify, where possible, the types of businesses operated by SLPs. In line with our previous research, we have found large numbers of SLPs with controlling partners in secrecy jurisdictions, Persons of Significant Control disproportionately situated outside of the UK (largely in Ukraine and Russia) and thousands of SLPs registered at mailbox addresses and virtual offices. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/10/01/smash-and-grab-the-uks-money-laundering-machine/
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235. Hatred of humanity is reaching out for radical methods of destruction - by gases and poisoning. Let scientists make it clear that these gases do not disappear immediately but precipitate for a long time. Let the inventors of gases settle down in a house the walls of which have been rubbed with arsenic or corrosive sublimate, or other emanative poisons. By experience on themselves, on their eyes, skin and lungs, let them be convinced as to how long the emanating poisons continue to act. Moreover, in a large number of poisons their preparation works injury at great distances. Only criminal stupidity thinks that the damage will be done only to the enemy. -Morya: Brotherhood 1937
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235. Hatred of humanity is reaching out for radical methods of destruction - by gases and poisoning. Let scientists make it clear that these gases do not disappear immediately but precipitate for a long time. Let the inventors of gases settle down in a house the walls of which have been rubbed with arsenic or corrosive sublimate, or other emanative poisons. By experience on themselves, on their eyes, skin and lungs, let them be convinced as to how long the emanating poisons continue to act. Moreover, in a large number of poisons their preparation works injury at great distances. Only criminal stupidity thinks that the damage will be done only to the enemy. -Morya: Brotherhood 1937
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