Foreign secretary David Lammy says he is ending London’s role as a money laundering capital

David Lammy, the foreign secretary, claimed he was bringing the “golden age of money laundering” to an end as he announced UK financial sanctions against three high-profile kleptocrats and their key enablers.

The Foreign Office on Thursday announced sanctions including asset freezes and travel bans on the Ukrainian billionaire Dmitry Firtash, the daughter of Angola’s former president Isabel dos Santos, and the Latvian oligarch Aivars Lembergs.