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Politics Unpacked

Follow the Russian Money

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley explores the Economic Crime Bill designed to crack down on the flow of dirty money to the UK.


PLUS: Carol Lewis and Roger Boyes discuss the situation in Ukraine and house prices.



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0:00.0

Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast. I'm Matt Jorley. Thank you for all of your nice messages

0:08.9

and tweets and things about Friday's episode. The Sunday shows part two. We're all about David

0:15.1

Foster and Breakfast Breakfast. Coming up this week, we're going to take a look at on the record

0:19.7

the Sunday lunch time political show presented by Jonathan Dimblebee and then John Humphrey's

0:24.5

as a crack in listen. So that's coming up later on this week. Today though, we are following

0:29.6

the Russian money as MPs debate another crackdown on dodgy Russian money in the UK. We'll speak to

0:38.9

some of those who know this issue best and ask, is this enough? First though, we kick off with our

0:44.2

columnist panel, No Libby Ratchie today. Instead, we've got Times Diplomatic Editor Roger Boys

0:49.2

and Deputy Property Editor, Cowell Lewis. Now, Roger, you've just returned from Poland. Yeah,

0:58.8

the Polish-Ukrainian border. Explain what it is like there having seen it with your own eyes.

1:03.7

Well, it's absolutely chaotic, obviously. A million people have entered Poland in the last week.

1:10.8

And this is a kind of small, I wrote, scruffy town and I got lots of criticism online for that.

1:19.9

But it is. It's a typical border town that was, you know, a smuggling town originally.

1:26.0

And it's just ill-equipped for this kind of flood of people. They come on the train from Kiev

1:32.0

at the moment, but they'll come from other cities, probably, too. Sometimes it's people who fled

1:37.6

one city like Kharkiv to Kiev. And then from Kiev, they moved to Lviv and they eventually arrive here

1:46.0

at this place. And it's, you know, obviously the name of the place of others? Psymishol. And I'm

1:52.3

glad you asked me that. And, you know, often 30 hours on the way, the whole of the Polish

2:00.0

train system in southern Poland is completely loused up here. There's because they just can't

2:04.9

deal with the volumes of people. You know, Ukrainian mothers and children are sort of whisked

2:12.8

away to gymnasiums and converted warehouses and waiting for people to take them. And having to

2:22.8

share the whole with Kyrgyz people and Tajiks and so on, people who'd fled the Afghan war to Ukraine

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