The UK is enabling money laundering and sanctions evasion in Russia’s former Central Asian satellite states, and thereby helping Putin fund his war in Ukraine, according to a British parliamentary report. Corrupt elites in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are being allowed to “wash the profits of their drugs trades in the offices of the City of London,” the report by the cross-party House of Commons foreign affairs committee says.