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The Money Trail
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Abused by fraudsters: A timeline of Scottish Limited Partnerships
A timeline of how Scottish Limited Partnerships, created in 1907, became attractive vehicles for secrecy, fraud, and global financial crime.
Muirhouse, SLPs and the King of Fraud
How Scottish Limited Partnerships linked to global fraud, money laundering, and sanctioned individuals are hiding in plain sight, from Muirhouse flats to Tesco-adjacent offices.
The Money Trail: Investigating finance
We spent the past year investigating how Scotland is used to hide illicit wealth, from dark money to offshore land deals. Here's what we found out
Revealed: Politicians, billionaires and offshore firms’ taxpayer forestry handouts
The King, J.K. Rowling, billionaires and politicians are among those who have been given tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer forestry subsidies.
Union sparks living wage row at elite Scots golf club
A major trade union has challenged an elite Scottish golf club – which costs more than £100,000 to…
Revealed: The secret owners of elite Scots golf club
Top political donors, a Labour lord and Scottish football hero Ally McCoist have been among secret owners of a tax haven firm behind an elite Scottish golf club.
Wealthy Cairngorm landowner linked to £800m tax haven scam
Liechtenstein businessman Alexander Bryan Jeeves and his financial services firm were listed among defendants in a series of US civil court cases.
Millionaire MP who branded wind farms ‘eco scam’ owns wind turbine firm
A multimillionaire Highland MP co-owns a wind turbine firm despite branding wind power an “eco scam” and helping set up an anti-wind farm group.
Billionaire family linked to trade unionist blacklisting scandal are Tory donors
A billionaire family once headed by a key player in an operation which blacklisted trade unionists and others…
