Government vows to go after ‘sharp-suited facilitators’ in dirty money crackdown

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'People have bought houses with cash, and somehow some estate agents have not thought that is remotely suspicious', vents security minister Ben Wallace

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Main image: Minister of State for Security and Economic Crime, Ben Wallace

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