«Terrorists, hostile states and gangsters have been given more than £28bn of taxpayers’ money, including through aid payments, according to a secret government report.
The Telegraph can reveal details of a dossier showing that billions of pounds went to organised crime, with millions going to Russia and Islamic State.
It demonstrates that foreign aid and Covid relief loans were appropriated on a vast scale by Britain’s enemies, with the money beyond reach and those who took it unpunished.
More than £28bn ended up in the hands of those wishing to harm Britain between 2015 and 2021, according to the report, which was commissioned and produced by the Cabinet Office but was buried during the previous government.
Sources said it was never made public to save the government from the political embarrassment of revealing the huge scale of misdirected funds.
The Telegraph can reveal the existence of the document, believed to be the first assessment of how much taxpayer money has gone on to fund national security threats. It includes:
- Grants given to companies linked to the Russian state
- Covid loans sent to Islamic State terrorists
- Investment in research for companies linked to the Chinese military.»
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