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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: UK’s most secretive think tanks took £14.3m from mystery donorsopenDemocracy has relaunched the Who Funds You? campaign into think tanks and transparency. Here’s what we found
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: E.ON tried to get Kwarteng to cut its taxes while bills soaredThe UK’s biggest energy supplier also felt threat from Don’t Pay UK was ‘existential’, exclusive documents reveal
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsHundreds of firms linked to organised crime based yards from Companies HouseSome 950 UK LLPs indicating money-laundering links were registered close to government agency’s HQ, new research shows
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Weapons firms install 50 staff inside the Ministry of DefenceBAE among arms firms paying Ministry of Defence staff’s salaries while winning lucrative contracts
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: How Tory minister aided Saudi takeover of Newcastle UnitedGerry Grimstone vowed to take Premier League plan to top of Saudi government, documents seen by openDemocracy show
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsExclusive: Senior Liz Truss adviser worked at lobbying firm for energy supplierIain Carter was a partner at Hanbury Strategy, which was paid to lobby the government on behalf of Bulb Energy
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Birmingham pays half a billion pounds to under-fire landlordsSocial housing providers were criticised by a watchdog for failures – including conflicts of interest over funding
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Substandard landlords bank £132m to house vulnerable residentsSpecialist providers pocket huge sums in housing benefit, despite criticism from Regulator of Social Housing
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationClose Kremlin allies among Russian donors who gave £7m to British unisUnion condemns sector for helping oligarchs 'launder reputations' – but says higher education needs financial help
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Russian oligarch dodged sanctions over Mayfair mansionShares controlled by Alisher Usmanov in a London property firm were transferred to the Russian business empire he founded
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: US climate deniers pump millions into Tory-linked think tanksOur investigation reveals secretive funding sources for think tanks that boast of influencing the government
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: Policing bill was dreamed up by secretive oil-funded think tankControversial anti-protest law may have originated in briefing from Policy Exchange, our investigation reveals
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsTories have taken £62,000 from Russia-linked donors since war beganThe donations include £50,000 from Lubov Chernukhin, who is married to Vladimir Putin’s former deputy finance minister
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: FeatureOligarchs’ yacht club: UK firm’s ties to Russian cashBarcelona’s superyacht marina was tied to Russian money – but the oligarchs involved were kept secret
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionCan the new Economic Crime Bill really tackle the UK’s dirty money problem?From Russian money laundering to a fraud epidemic, economic crime costs the UK at least £290bn a year. The...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Influential UK net-zero sceptics funded by US oil ‘dark money’Net Zero Watch says it won’t take cash from fossil fuel investors – but we discovered a funder with millions in oil
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: Feature9 times public authorities refused to answer questionsopenDemocracy is leading more than 100 journalists and MPs in calling for the Freedom of Information Act to be...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationFraudsters steal identities of UK government officials to set up companiesBogus UK businesses have been set up using the names of officials at the Ministry of Justice and HMRC
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: MPs have claimed £420,000 to heat their second homes since 2019Liz Truss and Matt Hancock are among the MPs who have charged energy bills to the public purse in the last three years
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationWhy did a popular UK news site run anonymous propaganda about Russian oil?Exclusive: The London Economic praised BP’s stake in Russia’s state-owned Rosneft and ran other flattering articles...