Ministers face claims they have allowed the ruling elite of Kazakhstan to secretly invest vast chunks of the country's wealth in the London property market after failing to introduce promised new transparency laws. Former prime minister David Cameron pledged at an anti-corruption summit in London in 2016 that the UK would end the secret offshore ownership of property.

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