Ten oligarchs placed on the UK sanction list in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, used a ‘golden visa’ scheme for high-net-worth individuals to establish themselves in the country, home secretary Suella Braverman has revealed.⁠ ⁠ In the wake of the review, Braverman said the government would never again have a visa scheme based ‘solely on the basis of the applicant’s wealth’.⁠ �Anti-corruption campaigners criticised the visa scheme’s process for having inadequate checks and have long held that it was open to abuse.⁠ ⁠ Image: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP