In routine stories of crime, corruption and unethical trading published in the former Soviet Union over the last two months they all have one thing on common. At their very centre is the alleged abuse of a Scottish limited partnership or SLP, the corporate structure long dubbed “Britain’s home-grown secrecy vehicle”.

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