Court grants permission for judicial review into Unexplained Wealth Order against Donald Trump

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: The Scotsman

News Politics

Court grants permission for judicial review into Unexplained Wealth Order against Donald Trump

Legal efforts to force Scottish ministers to scrutinise the financing of Donald Trump’s golf and hotel resorts have overcome a significant hurdle, after the Court of Session granted permission for campaigners to seek a judicial review of the Scottish Government’s position.

By Martyn McLaughlin
Wednesday, 11th August 2021, 12:36 pm
Updated 55 minutes ago

Avaaz, a US-based non-profit activism organisation, petitioned Scotland’s highest court after MSPs rejected calls to pursue an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) against the former US president’s Scottish firms.

The government has said that any decision to apply for a UWO is a matter for ministers, with the Civil Recovery Unit (CRU) handling any applications to the courts in practice.

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Read more: https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/court-grants-permission-for-judicial-review-into-unexplained-wealth-order-against-donald-trump-3342131

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Trump’s Scotland Resort To Face Renewed Scrutiny
August 11, 2021

https://www.joemygod.com/2021/08/trumps-scotland-resort-to-face-renewed-scrutiny/

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Maybe Scotland can move swiftly

and get some justice of the sort we can only dream of in this country.

[Lonestarblue]

4. Justice moves too slowly in this country.

I think it was Joyce Vance who said on Nicole Wallace’s show that even if the DOJ decides to investigate Trump’s role in the planning and execution of 1/6, it would take at least two years. That’s ridiculous. By then Trump will be riding down his golden escalator to another GOP nomination, at which point any indictment would truly be seen as political. I don’t know whether we need more investigators or just investigators who aren’t afraid of the optics of investigating a former president.

[reACTIONary]

6. That's not my take away...

... The article states that the government has refused to investigate, and that a non-profit organization is suing to force them to do so. Doesn't sound like an expedient process to me.

My presumption is that if the government doesn't want to investigate, it ain't going to happen.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Which suggests that the Scottish govt is corrupt and have illegal interest in what is happening.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Scotland The Brave

[Champp]

3. Up the Auld Drumpf Haggis with a Rectal Inspector

[reACTIONary]

5. This doesn't seem to be a big step forward...

... it seems like Scotland's government does not want to investigate, and an outside, American, not-for-profit is trying to force them to. I would think that, in the end, it will be up to the government to decide, and it seems like they have already decided. Good luck with that.

[Bev54]

9. Avaaz is a worldwide organization and actually got its start in

Winnipeg Canada. I have been a member for many years but they are well known in political circles because of their millions of members. They have a seat at many tables and are taken seriously. They have saved lives in different countries, I remember saving women from being stoned to death because of the backlash. I would not count them out in convincing people the right thing to do.

[pandr32]

12. +1

[reACTIONary]

16. Thanks for the info ...

... the article, or at least the selection I read didn't identify the organization.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Non-restricted article in The Guardian:

A Scottish judge has granted Avaaz permission to challenge a decision by ministers to reject calls for an unexplained wealth order (UWO) into how Trump raised the hundreds of millions of pounds spent on his two Scottish golf courses near Aberdeen and Turnberry.
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In a ruling issued on Wednesday by the court of session, Scotland’s civil court, Lord Sandison said he believed the Avaaz case “had real prospects of success [and that] there was a sensible legal argument to be had on the matters raised by the petition”.
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Sandison allowed the Avaaz application to proceed even though it was technically time-barred, and also decided a future judicial review could investigate Trump’s finances, not just the dry technical question of whether ministers can order a UWO inquiry.
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“The question comes to be whether the petition raises matters of such live and substantive public importance as to render it in the interests of justice to allow it to proceed out of time,” Sandison said.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/11/scottish-judge-permits-legal-case-over-trumps-golf-course-spending

[smb]

8. Unexplained Wealth?

He stiffed his creditors and suckered a lot of saps into sending him money. What's "unexplained" about it?

[GoneOffShore]

14. Money from Moscow.

[orangecrush]

11. SCOTTISH RICO!!!

[twodogsbarking]

13. When is the final season of Ozark?

Not sure what made me think of that.

[TlalocW]

15. Hopefully this goes forward

Another thing for him to worry about.

TlalocW

[Blue Owl]

17. So many things about The Slobfather that are unexplained...

Where to begin?