The London office block at the heart of Belarus's foreign finance empire
Ties run deep between Britain and Europe's last dictatorship
25 May 2021 • 7:30pm
Families living in Hammersmith Grove, a stone’s throw from one of west London's busiest gyratories, could be forgiven for not giving the large 1970s beige building a second glance.
But inside the Regus serviced office block sits one of the most prominent outposts of Europe's last dictatorship.
BNK is at the heart of Belarus’s burgeoning economic influence in Britain. Official filings show that under the direction of bureaucrats in Minsk, more than €2bn of Belarusian oil is sold through its London trading subsidiary each year.