Estate Agent Today – Does it really take a war to improve AML checks?

It’s taken Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the UK to finally take a much-needed step in the right direction to stop the flow of dirty money flowing through the ‘laundromat’ that is the London property market. The long-awaited Register of Overseas Entities (ROE), an idea first announced by David Cameron over six years ago, was finally implemented on the 1st August 2022, and it couldn’t have come soon enough.

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By The Armalytix Team — 15 August 22
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