Katrina Gulliver

Britain’s money laundering scandal goes back a long way

Oliver Bullough links it to the Suez crisis – but the magnificent wheeze of non-domiciled tax status was an Edwardian creation

Dariga Nazarbayeva, the daughter of Kazakhstan’s former president, photographed at Buckingham Palace in 2015. The NCA’s failed case against her may have doomed the UK’s entire anti-money laundering strategy. [Getty Images]
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