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Richard Stallman 2 years ago
The UK parliament passed laws a few years ago to require registration of the effective ("beneficial") owner of foreign-owned properties, but left a loophole that defeats the system: when the nominal owner is a trust, it can still conceal the identity of the effective owner:
the Guardian
Owners of 100,000 properties held by foreign shell companies unknown despite new UK laws
Legal loopholes are used to obscured the ownership of two-thirds of English and Welsh properties held by foreign shell companies
 This is plutocratism at work.
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Richard Stallman 2 years ago
[01/02] Russia accused of intimidating US consulate staff who are Russians with Ukraine war spying charges:
the Guardian
Russia accused of intimidating US consulate staff with Ukraine war spying charges
State department says allegations against Robert Shonov are ‘wholly without merit’, as rare footage of detained US citizen Paul Whelan emerges
 What Shonov is accused of — relaying non-secret information picked up from the public — is a normal part of the work of staff of diplomatic organizations. The US consulate would have trouble functioning without these employees. But it can't tolerate this repression. The US could not morally respond by threatening the American citizens and other non-Russians...
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