Investor Visas: Money Laundering Debate

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Department: Home Office

Investor Visas: Money Laundering

Baroness Ludford Excerpts
Monday 9th May 2016

(8 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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To ask Her Majesty’s Government what retrospective checks they intend to make, if any, into the financial backgrounds of foreign citizens, predominantly from Russia and China, who were granted United Kingdom residence through tier 1 investor visas, in the light of the reductions in applications and acceptances since the introduction of prior money-laundering checks in 2015.