Claim 'abortion to birth' is now legal in the UK is Mostly False
Changes to abortion law in England and Wales have been misrepresented on social media.
Finance
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From Moscow to Paisley: How a blacklisted Russian oligarch secretly invested in Scottish car parks
A Russian oligarch praised by Vladimir Putin has amassed a UK property portfolio under the veil of secretive offshore trusts, The Ferret can reveal. Anti-corruption campaigners say our investigation is a “shocking indictment” of the UK’s “dirty money” defences.
Ukrainian owner of Scots space rocket firm linked to online gambling in Russia and 'I am naughty' dating site
The Ukrainian tech tycoon building Scotland’s first orbital rocket — and the offshore links raising transparency questions.
Company that sold Highland port for secret sum received £30m of taxpayers’ money
A company that sold a major Highland port for an undisclosed sum to a Japanese firm received over £30m of
Scots ‘umbrella’ firms duped NHS and council workers into tax avoidance schemes
Scottish companies are roping NHS and council workers into veiled tax avoidance schemes that could see them hit with big
Scottish Government gave £77m to secretive tax haven firms
A company controlled by billionaire media baron Rupert Murdoch, a US military aircraft producer, and a Clyde port owner with
Scots universities took funding from Chinese organisations with military links
Scottish universities have accepted millions of pounds from Chinese organisations with alleged links to the military, human rights abuses and
Who are Scotland’s richest people?
The power and influence of the wealthiest in society has been one of the main themes of The Ferret’s
A third of Scotland’s newspapers owned in US tax haven
Nearly a third of Scotland’s most-read national newspapers are owned in a US tax haven – and that proportion may
Abused by fraudsters: A timeline of Scottish Limited Partnerships
Scottish Limited Partnerships, or SLPs, are a business entity provided for in UK law dating back to the Limited Partnerships
Muirhouse, SLPs and the King of Fraud
“He works on the night shift and is probably asleep,” says an elderly woman as she walks past us and
The Money Trail: Investigating finance
For the past year, The Ferret has been working on a major project investigating finance called The Money Trail, and
Revealed: Politicians, billionaires and offshore firms’ taxpayer forestry handouts
The King, J.K. Rowling, billionaires and politicians are among those who have been given tens of millions of pounds