{"id":123625,"date":"2021-12-05T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fraudsters-of-the-world-come-to-london-and-bring-your-dirty-money-nick-cohen\/"},"modified":"2021-12-05T02:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T19:07:53","slug":"fraudsters-of-the-world-come-to-london-and-bring-your-dirty-money-nick-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fraudsters-of-the-world-come-to-london-and-bring-your-dirty-money-nick-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraudsters of the world, come to London. And bring your dirty money | Nick Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nKleptocrats love this country, knowing full well they\u2019ll be free from proper scrutinyThere is no better representation of the decline of the English upper class into the global rich\u2019s servant class than Ben Elliot. On the one hand, the co-chairman of the Tory party is now a rent collector, hauling in money for the Johnson administration from the Russian rich and native hedge fund bosses.On the other, he is an actual servant: an upmarket flunkey, to be sure, praised by society magazines for his \u201cpuppyish schoolboy charm\u201d, but a flunkey nonetheless. Elliot is a founder of the Quintessentially \u201cconcierge\u201d service that gives the super-rich anything they want: luncheon on an iceberg; the Sydney Harbour bridge closed for a wedding proposal. There\u2019s nothing Elliot won\u2019t do for paying customers up to and including arranging a meeting with our future sovereign. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is Elliot\u2019s aunt and it appears that no considerations of good form or good manners have prevented him monetising the connection. Not that the prince appears to mind. A Quintessentially advert interrupts a montage of shots of yachts and celebrities to quote his royal highness as saying he is \u201cparticularly grateful\u201d to Quintessentially for organising a party he attended. Members of Elliot\u2019s Quintessentially club donate to the Conservatives. The Conservatives gave Elliot \u00a31.4m of taxpayers\u2019 money in 2016 to \u201cattract the right high-value individual investors to the UK through bespoke programmes\u201d. If on arrival, those high-value individuals went on to show how valuable they were by hiring Quintessentially and donating to the Tories, the circle would be complete. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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