How Russia's war exposed the dark side of luxury London 

Unless they do it without her majesty's decision. 😏

Tom, u purchase it first at the current price. Then let the govt compulsory purchase @ 25% of this price from u in the name of national security

Haha

haha, I love that a Tom Nook comment is top pinned on this vid lol

National security ?? Mod has cheap and very safe measures, preventing unnecessary purchase of high premium property. They have a budget and have to stick to it. Economics my friend.

The money aren’t even in London, maybe just 5% of it. London won’t feel it.

@@olajong2315 then why don't u guys seize the Russian assets in London? U think there's no reason behind it?

@@Gary-bz1rf 😂Yeah

Don't worry about that , besides Russians are other milllioners in the world , forgot about Arabs !?

Sounds like a dream

💯

They're the real gangster in this story. Used america and the eu to do the dirty job. As usual🤣

Every western nations wealth is inclusive of plenty of dirty cash from the past, but IMAGINE ignoring the new and growing terrible actions of today in order to get angry at events hundreds of years ago because you have a chip on your shoulder?

The house of lords. You know the guys who tell the queen what to do

Did you ask David icky? He is right....

Also indian fugitive, fraudster and billionaire

Yes and it's so sad😭😭

Nawaz Shrieff (ex Pakistani PM convict on corruption) is a convicted criminal as he could not prove where his money for avenue apartment in London was brought. He escaped his 8 years imprisonment in Pakistan based on few weeks of leave for health reason & check up in U.K. Today he is here for over 2 years without visa or passport. Can U.K home office do the same for normal people?

Ah well we might see them actually move in to them now most of Pakistan is flooded, Gods wrath is the only justice left now sit back and watch the show

Even Indian fraudsters r enjoying in uk

That's why they use the Poppy flower as a symbol. They remember that their wealth was through opium.

Not wholly people like me flogged out guts out doing daily work plus this poxy nation got dragged into two world wars for our loving european friends

@@arfermo853 well he's talking about the deeds of ur ancestors in Africa & India.

​@@superaddy8564 yeah cos no other countries were doing it .

@@superaddy8564 why should he be responsible for the deeds of his ancestors? Are all modern day Germans responsible for the Holocaust 80 years ago? Pretty disgusting way to judge people.

No mention of New York? Wall Street? NYSE??? Come on!!

@@senianns9522 This video is about London, why would they talk about NY?

@@vkdrk Same dirty stuff everywhere Vlad!

The UK government is becoming very poor... So they start looting the Russians, but who's next? UK citizens?!

@@senianns9522 That's true Se!

Such a shame people like myself can't even dream of owning a property there anymore

@@ashmash4563 I mean, if you have £1M I'm sure you could find a flat somewhere.

Today their money is "dirty", and tomorrow it's yours.

​@@IAVeritasI don't think this dude is an oligarch so probably not

Envy is a sin

indeed.

The Five Minute Hate is why.

It's a miracle.

See if yuo can figure this out > Clean money is taxed to the tune of 72 billion pounds & 6,600 million acres of prime English land & horded away by queen Liz...then Liz still demands her (over) 100 million pounds per year from more taxes, the upkeep of all her horses who live better than out-of-work England. Kind of funny, huh?

Dirty money = money up for grabs

I can only hope this is triggering a long overdue clamdown on ill-begotten wealth that will (in time) be targeted at other sources too

Not mention all the dirty money from Dubai.

Let’s not forget Ireland 🇮🇪

There are no "morals" in the offshore world ; every one is just ...a customer.

Ok bhaai

Yeah this report skimpt on a few details, but basically all of those houses or flats are owned by Oligarchs- people who got obscenely rich after being given heavy industry during the breakup of the soviet union. If you were lucky enough to be one of those people your networth started spiralling exponentially upwards overnight. Their problem is that their money is dirty and they need a place to store or launder INSANE amounts of it and London has long been a location to do just that because of the value of the city and the tax practises of territories we used to control. The British are undoubtedly giant hipocrites in these matters as you say. However as our atrocities have faded into history and trading became more honest in our country- you could say that we're highly specifically primed to identify when an individual person or company is trading their dirty money on our doorstep.

Most of money belongs to India

@@kasunrathsara6331 alot of wealth is from Africa as well

@@kasunrathsara6331 yeah Americans took money from ur home ,when u was living in a cow dung hut.

Poor countries what an oxymoron how can a country be poor yet have so much "dirty wealth"

@@inmeditatewetrust because you park your money in tax free zone......🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's how that happens

Facts (I agree with you)

meanwhile ordinary brits can’t afford to buy a house

11 mill the world has gone mad lmfao

@@appletree6741 a friend of mine is holding on to his family’s London townhouse due to this property appreciating.

Nonsense, most capital cities in developed countries have expensive property prices.

That's the business model. Close eyes when sell, seize, sell again

Yes it’s hypocritical and laughable

A joke

Even oligarchs small country like Malaysia wash their money in London property. Lol

@@xkmal yeah I am from Azerbaijan and London is famous among corrupt government officials here.

Pay particular attention at @9:31

Add china also......

😂

@@tarapappa1594 China is far above the West in civilisation, Culture and historical sophistication.

@@tarapappa1594 China got invaded by Japan and mass raped and head chopped

Kristina do you approve of babies being raped in Ukraine and people being slaughtered by Putin's murderers? Your grasp of British history is quite poor. The Irish Kings invited in the Normans to settle internal disputes, from here the Kingdom of England and Ireland united. This moved on until Irish independence in the early 20th Century. During this time the reformation happened Europe wide and masses were slaughtered on both sides, Most of England and Southern Scotland became protestant whereas the Highlands of Scotland and Ireland remained catholic. From this schism the troubles arrived. It isn't comparable to say Stalin starving 5 million Ukrainians.....How's the price of Vodka?

IS finance really the only major industry the UK has left???

Well, they did exploited huge lands around the world and treated the natives inhumane, they also did drug deals as a country, they're also addicted with wars. Their image will always be this way

@@Michael-gt2cf “Addicted to wars”. Where are you from?

@@RAFIKIEI I don't know how ignorant you are in real history. You should travel sometimes and ask the natives of different countries

this is what we call hypocrisy.

"Baddie" 😆 😆

Too right! I don't think people in general (let alone most Americans) realise we do not live in a true democracy, rather a democratically elected oligarchy. The democratic side becomes significantly less when you consider the impact lobbyists and wealthy people can have on government policy.

@@Mr_Phage you are free to choose... Free to choose a person, who will benefit from your poverty, and millions of people abroad. If that's a democracy, then we don't need a democracy like that

and in india, pakistan, china? why is everybody picking on the west. at least in the west people noticed that mercantilism is happening and that it is wrong - for asia and middle east its a business as usual.

Ну, конечно, а кто ему дал заработать в 90-е??) вернее спекульнуть. Видать сам Олеженька и пишет.

yep. And Russia is something else with the country.

@@indatext Vodka with a country.

And 90% of Pakistan's stolen taxpayer money is based in London. Corrupt parasites and their Neo-colonial enablers keep sucking the blood out of South Asia.

Yes still in British Slavery

@@ethblock Britisher looting habits of indian money.

Most of Africa's, China's, Indian subcontinent's money is flowing in London via different channels. Indians and Pakistanis are biggest property holders in London

Agreed

Members of the Royal Family and prominet British people also have offshore accounts in different places ..They must be very patriotic indeed

Telling

The FCA ?

"the free market will regulate itself!!1!"

Would love to know about this any source which I can read

@@yumikotanashi googling extradition agreement of Singapore and indonesia

Alot of dirty money from Malaysia also keep in Singapore

Singapore is smart that's why. They copied London.

it's racist to do it to a non-white race.

Sad truth tovarish

@@martineden7075 Not everyone with a name like mine is russian btw.

because Russian government officials and others got it from robbing former soviet citizens of state industries

@@Spudandrowback7D Why it became dirty money just after beginning of war😂?. And everyone knows London is best city for money launderer and financial criminals from all over the world. So, is it only Russian money which is dirty?.

Great reply

Who wants to get over anyways?

🍷👍 I know right?! 🤦🏼‍♀️😆

Yea totally

Who cares? The world is ran via London/DC and NY. Everyone else is just a pawn.

😂😂😂😂😂

they are not colonised with just a single law they throw out every russian investor there is a difference

Who spells like that? ‘Colonizer’? What’s that, an ice cream?

@@olajong2315 North American spelling. Read before you speak.

You think this is the end? You do realise we’ve confiscated Russian assets we encouraged them to buy. Now who’s on top. People been hoping for uk decline since the 1500s

@@jakehall4493 they will get their assets back, its only a matter of time and if they don't, I expect a lot of the British establishment to be visited by men with radioactive brollies

Mate you cant compare something that happened ages ago.

Same as Paris and Brussels. Build out of bleeding Africa for centuries.

@@warumdach738 why not mate? Truth hurts?

@@MrBITSian it's 21 century, something change in our world since then, at least we all think so

Yea all the materials, resources, slaves from outside. UK is poor af

Europeans aren't a fan of Berlusconi either. Most people are aware that both often belong to the group of rich, sexual perverts. No difference.

Oligarchs got their wealth through kleptocracy. Western billionaires largely got their wealth by competing in the marketplace.

@@johnnyguitar2929 and by owning slaves in their factories and corporations

@@johnnyguitar2929 you forgot millions that they earned through colonization, slavery, slave trading, genocide of local population, and so on. Look at Elon Musk for example. A billionaire with parents who own emerald mines, and got most of their wealth during apartheid in South Africa, and you'll get the point. It's not about market competition, it's about enslaving labourers, and robbing the countries

@@dealensky capitalism at it's best. Sadly most people don't realize where this wealth came from 🤷

Since, idk like 1600+ ? Did you notice the industrial revolution? the rise of the West? It seems you may have missed a few lessons about how the world got to how it is today, ie the history of the last 500 years.

@@wesleysanders8570 after 1600+ Britain become coloniser that's the whole reason world will forever hate Britain and expect downfall of Britain.

@@wesleysanders8570 these people are blinded by their hatred of British colonialism lmao

@@wesleysanders8570 1600 was a long time ago pal. The world is not the same.

@@distantraveller9876 that's the same argument all you descendants of slave masters and colonialists use

This is not right. Most of this came from the post WW2 boom. Development of financial services for the modern world. This property is new, not old, likely came from services sale to European firms.

@@RRaymer exactly. Where do you think the money for the industrialisation came from. It came from british colonies like the Americas, africa and india. The british have looted up to 45 trillion dollars from india between 1840-1947. Even today, most of uk's reserves is made of colonial money made from exploiting india and slaves in africa .

@@jdjdbsbsbsnskdkdjx5641 oops! Too much truth. I think you burst that person’s imaginary bubble!

@@jdjdbsbsbsnskdkdjx5641 The old 45 trillion nonsense being trotted out by Indian nationalists again haha. That’s more than the entire global economy back then lmao, you can use the brits as an excuse for your shitty country if you like but it’s not gonna make it any better

@@TheTruthVision hope so

Vancouver and Toronto became China town already

The answer is in taxes and how almost all postsoviet oligarch get their money in 90-s (and it never was legal)

@@myra1683 RUSSIAN who got very Rich in 90's were not many... when PUTIN took power in late 99, RUSSIA had only 7 Billionaires... today RUSSIA is the home for 121 BILLIONAIRES. OLIGARCHS are not even more that 4 today...

@@myra1683 The oligarchs are largely a product of the shock therapy/extreme privatization the western elite pushed in 90’s Russia, especially American and British ones. They were right there looting russias wealth too. Now they pretend they didn’t play a part in it.

ironically Ukraine has a much bigger oligarch problem than Russia, relatively speaking

Expand on this please?

I'm talking about real estate and infrastructure.. we don't allow foreigners to easily buy real estate but the English countries are exempt and park their money in realestate whilst the governments largely ignore the money Laundering rules that apply to everyone else but them.

True. Swiss bank that allowed the ill-gotten wealth of Marcos family of the Philippines. Billions of dollars were involved.

Boo Hoo. Add in NYC as well.

True exactly

Lol sounds like many African politicians/presidents

these russian billionaire literally migrate to london to avoid Putin then england backstab them

Lol The USA and UK helped create those oligarchs while ordinary Russians saw their social nets collapse and they starved. At the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia had some of the most valuable companies in the world worth trillions of dollars and the western elite with their select Russian circle looted the hell out of them, along with pushing shock therapy on the population that was all shock and no therapy

Albanians too

They mentioned a few other countries briefly. The guy said they shouldn't just focus on Russia because it's not just coming from there.

They are pure like nun 😝

No wonder people are poor Silas miner is Uk Book, dont ever wonder

British is saints

Good eye.

also one Rolls Royce

She’s in the area of Belgravia & Kensington. Where Harrods is. All the land is owned by Russians & Arabs. Indigenous Londoners can’t afford to reside here. The London government allowed it. For financial backhanders. They are all anti-English scumbags who should have their heads removed at Traitors Gate.

And a Volvo and again a Bentley

This is Knightsbridge...it's fancy.

Yes Yes! I'm actually happy about the rise of NFTs as it's another way for them to store money in something without having to snatch up all the real-estate square footage that our city desperately needs.

I feel like quiet a few European said the same thing, I've met French who call Paris their own country. Russian who say Moscow their own country.

@@hachibidelta4237 Perhaps so, but London really has a greater case than those capital cities in other countries. Considering the way London is governed, it's more similar to the Vatican, BIS, or Washington DC, than it is to other capital cities like Paris or Moscow.

@@christianindividual4550 what about the city of London, different from London itself, like the Vatican from Rome.

London is always going to be part of the UK its the capital city and without London the rest of the UK would not be standing.

@@marktaurus206 I think he is not talking about the Greater London area. Not even Westminster. I suspect he is refering to the City of London (you know: that square mile between Chancery Lane, Holborn, Charterhouse, Middlesex Street, and the river Thames on the south side) which is a nothing but a corporation where the monarch HAS to ask for permission to enter from the Lord Mayor.

Agreed

I have disdain for the upper classes but that is very naive. Humanity is dirty. London and NYC are just the best at cleaning the filth.

Not if they're like everyone else's oligarchs. They couldn't care less about their own kids, and have sold the next generations' future so they could live like their envied counterparts in developing and oil nations.

Exactly

“Oligarchs” in Russia are what “entrepreneurs” are called in the West

Your English is poor, all of a sudden...

Because suddenly, a european state (Russia) has attacked another sovereign state and endangered everything that the modern world has tried to build- peace and security. Russia's actions are intolerable in Europe of the 21st century, and i'm SO glad to see that wide swathes of Europe have viciously struck back at Putins regime. The sooner Putin and his cronies die/are brought down the better for the world.

@@ezrathegreatconqueror No, there's a big difference- in Russia NO ONE who is very wealthy is truly able to be independent of Putins mafia government. Also, many Russian oligarchs seized their wealth in the collapse of law and order in the 1990s - using connections to buy up huge swathes of the countries previously state owned industries, against the interests of the Russian people.

I was actually wondering the same...

absolutely.

Still waiting for that supposed karma to happen

@@icegaming2862 I'm pretty sure that when the majority of folks are paying more than 50% of their income for rent, karma is on the horizon. Civil war comes to mind. The French Revolution as well. But even better, NUCLEAR war. Yaaaaaayyyyyyy

@Napolean Bonaparte-The Greatest military general 😂

Indians are hypocrites