Ministers kick a misconduct-in-public-office law into the long grass Isle of Man will be left behind as the UK advances tougher Hillsborough-style transparency rules Tynwald may get round to public accountability law in the next administration Meanwhile, people and companies who are suing the IoM government for alleged corruption cannot get full disclosure of the documents which they say officials are hiding. In the notorious £90 million Lord Street case, Sondica is facing th

On the surface the Isle of Man is an attractive place to live. This idyllic, if windy, Crown dependency in the middle of the Irish sea and less than 40 miles from the English coast has an upper tax rate of 21 percent. And there is no capital gains, stamp duty or inheritance tax. Its 85,000 permanent residents include some of Britain’s richest people, notably Baroness Michele Mone, Tyson Fury, the former World Heavyweight boxing champion, TV presenter Noel Edmonds, cycling

A year after the Ukraine war broke out a Russian intelligence agent boards a fishing trawler called Taurus just off the coast of Norway. He is under surveillance by the Norwegian security services after driving through the northern regions of the country. His covert meetings are noted. As he disembarks from the boat, the spy is carrying a black bag and moves back onto the mainland. On the surface it is an exciting espionage tale of civilian vessels colluding with secret agent

Abdulla Al Humaidi - Source: Luxury Launches Mumbai The bankrupt businessman behind the doomed £3.5 billion theme park ‘Dartford Disneyland’ and former owner of Ebbsfleet United FC could be subject to a criminal investigation, the High Court heard last month. Abdulla Al Humaidi was declared bankrupt in 2023 due to money owed to creditors who had invested in the park. But the Judge and bankruptcy trustees say the Kuwaiti entrepreneur has not disclosed the required information

The funding of a charity run by President Putin’s estranged eldest daughter has been dismissed and rejected by a European Union Judge as the basis for sanctioning two Russian Oligarchs, I can reveal. The charity, the Alfa-Endo program which helps sick children in Russia, is run by Maria Vorontsova, the eldest daughter of Putin who has never publicly acknowledged her. It is financed by Alfa Bank whose majority shareholders are Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Peter Av

Officials hid ‘explosive’ secret report from National Audit Office, according to newly released emails Sub-postmasters and their supporters awaited the first volume of a report into the scandal earlier this week Credit: Leon Neal/ Getty Senior civil servants have been accused of covering up a report that could have exonerated sub-postmasters wrongly accused of theft. According to newly released emails, government officials removed any reference to a secret report that contain

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