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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: Farage’s Brexit Party chairman facing questions over offshore tax haven linksBrexit ‘Bad Boy’ Richard Tice says he doesn’t know who’s behind offshore firms that own a large stake in his family...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsNational Crime Agency finds ‘no evidence’ of crimes committed by Arron Banks’s Brexit campaignElectoral Commission says decision ‘allows overseas funds into UK politics’, as it comes under fire from Brexit...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: Election pact between Johnson and Farage edges closerChannels opened between Downing Street and the Brexit Party. Arron Banks prepared to donate substantial funds to...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsMP demands investigation into Farage’s US, dark money pro-Brexit campaign groupStark warning of US-style Super PACs arriving in UK as Brexit Party leader launches dark-money-funded campaign group...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: the files that expose ERG as a militant “party within a party”Documents released following openDemocracy transparency victory reveal European Research Group’s “highly partial”...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsThink tank won’t reveal who paid for report calling Extinction Rebellion ‘extremists’Police officer previously linked to Stephen Lawrence spying controversy accuses non-violent environmental group of...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsTax-funded research by Rees-Mogg’s ERG must be released, tribunal rulesLong-running openDemocracy investigation sees ruling that the public has a right to see research produced by the...
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Published in: oDRHow a Central Asian business empire dines out on British secrecyUsing the UK’s lax corporate transparency and accountability regime, international businesses can, in effect, mask...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsDominic Raab under fire for secretive meet with no-deal Brexit lobbyistTory prime minister hopeful, who pledged to suspend Parliament to push through a no-deal Brexit, had an undeclared...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: Climate change denier makes big donations to Boris Johnson and Jeremy HuntTory hopefuls under fire for accepting cash from company linked to major ‘climate science denial’ group. Johnson has...
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Published in: oDRWhy are so many Brexiteer politicians cosying up to this Armenian oligarch?Since 2017 Conservative Eurosceptics have shown a strange fascination for a state in the South Caucasus, paying...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party candidate spread "propaganda" for Balkan warlord, was 'bugged' by MI6John Kennedy distributed bogus claims of Bosnian war crimes and was suspected by intelligence services of funneling...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: Former Brexit minister accused of breaching ministerial code in meeting with Spanish far rightBrexit department claims Chris Heaton-Harris “wasn’t acting in a ministerial capacity” – but he discussed Brexit...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsKey members of Jacob-Rees Mogg’s pro-Brexit MP lobby group finally revealedGovernment forced to release list of ‘senior’ members of influential European Research Group, after long-running...
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Published in: 50.50MPs from 14 countries call for inquiry into ‘dark money’ millions spent by US Christian right in EuropeFollowing openDemocracy revelations, politicians demand information on American groups ‘trying to buy influence in...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations“Not in the public interest”: why the Electoral Commission didn’t investigate Vote Leave and DUP donationThe UK’s election watchdog doesn’t think it’s worth finding out if the Brexit campaign broke the law more than once....
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Published in: 50.50Revealed: dozens of European politicians linked to US ‘incubator for extremism’New openDemocracy research exposes increasing connections between a network of US, Russian and other...
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Published in: 50.50Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian ‘fundamentalists’ pour millions of ‘dark money’ into Europe, boosting the far rightMEPs call for action as openDemocracy analysis reveals ‘shocking’ flows of cash crossing the Atlantic to push...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsDon’t ask, don’t tell: how a conspiracy of silence will corrupt Britain’s next electionBrexit chaos could trigger a general election at any moment. Whenever it happens, there will be dozens of MPs who...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsMP accuses former Tory official of being a ‘fraudster’ and ‘cowboy’ who exploited legal loophole to hide source of ‘dark money’The Scottish Tory vice chair Richard Cook, who helped channel £435,000 to the Democratic Unionist Party, was branded...