Trump’s Scottish golf course buys under scrutiny
donald trump is facing myriad criminal and civil probes into his business in the u.s and reuters has learned he’s now facing scrutiny across the atlantic ocean a human rights group called the vaz is now asking questions about trump’s all-cash purchases of two scottish golf courses specifically the group wants to know where trump got the money and whether the scottish parliament is turning a blind eye it filed a petition asking a court to review a parliamentary vote against issuing what’s called an unexplained wealth order the proposal sought details as to the source of the more than 300 million dollars the trump organization spent to buy and develop the courses in 2006 and 2014. neither golf course has yet to turn a profit and the all-cash purchases stand out because trump famously built much of his real estate empire with borrowed money britain introduced unexplained wealth orders to help fight money laundering the orders don’t trigger criminal proceedings but if the trump organization couldn’t satisfy a court that the money was clean the government could in theory seize the properties the british parliament rejected the motion seeking the order in february the country’s former justice minister hamza yusef said such orders should be investigated by law enforcement not politicians if the court reviews that decision and sides with the vaz the government may have to take up the question again or find a new argument to reject the order
The Scottish government is facing a new legal challenge over its February rejection of a motion to investigate former U.S. President Donald Trump’s all-cash purchases of two golf courses, reviving an effort to force Trump to disclose how he financed the deals.
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