The British National Agency for Combating Crime is investigating the sources of income of 120-140 wealthy people. Many of them are connected with Russia, the Sunday Times source in the British government.

The number of investigators of the publication was named by the head of the department on economic and cybercrime Donald Tun, BBC News reports..

The source of the publication in the British government at the same time stated that "a very significant part" of the investigators involved in the investigation - from Russia or in any way connected with Russia.

"The Salisbury attack has accelerated our work to identify the illegal profits of corrupt elites ... so the amount of work that we do for corrupt Russians and public figures from Russia has also increased," the source said..

In January of this year in Britain came into force the law "Order of wealth of unknown origin". It allows you to freeze assets in the size of 50 thousand pounds and start an investigation in the event that their owner can not explain on what legal grounds they were received.

According to Tun, the agency in this investigation is focused on combating corrupt elites and illegal wealth.

"We do not choose a certain nationality for our goal," he said..

However, as the newspaper notes, checks against Russians intensified after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in Salisbury. The British authorities blame Russia for this attack.

After the attempt on the Violins, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced the verification of the system of issuing visas to foreign investors, for which about 700 Russians were wounded.