Jobs, bills and energy security: Fact-checking claims about Jackdaw gas field
The new gasfield was announced in recent weeks by the UK Government, and a number of claims emerged about its impact.
The Money Trail
From dark money, to Scottish Limited Partnerships, to the secretive ownership of land, The Money Trail investigates the financial flows impacting Scotland. We follow the money passing in and out of our country and scrutinise the individuals and companies behind it.
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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
Union sparks living wage row at elite Scots golf club
A major trade union has challenged an elite Scottish golf club – which costs more than £100,000 to join – to
Revealed: The secret owners of elite Scots golf club
Top political donors, a Labour lord and Scottish football hero Ally McCoist have been among secret owners of a tax
Wealthy Cairngorm landowner linked to £800m tax haven scam
A wealthy Cairngorm landowner was caught up in an alleged £800m money laundering and fraud scam that allegedly “cheated” investors
Millionaire MP who branded wind farms ‘eco scam’ owns wind turbine firm
A multimillionaire Highland MP co-owns a wind turbine firm despite branding wind power an “eco scam” and helping set
Billionaire family linked to trade unionist blacklisting scandal are Tory donors
A billionaire family once headed by a key player in an operation which blacklisted trade unionists and others from employment
UK overseas territories are world’s worst corporate tax havens, says report
UK overseas territories including the British Virgin Islands make up the world’s worst tax havens and are responsible for
Revealed: Canadian government owns Scots property via tax haven
The investment arm of a Canadian provincial government with an alleged history of tax avoidance is the owner of a
Revealed: A quarter of Scots MPs own multiple homes
More than one in four Scottish MPs own second homes or rake in tens of thousands of pounds in rent
House of Lords: Scots peers cost taxpayer £10m over five years
Scottish members of the House of Lords cost the taxpayer nearly £10m over the last five years, The Ferret can