Lyudmyla Kozlovska, director of the non-government organisation Open Dialogue Foundation, was banned from travelling in the EU last August

Scottish companies are said to have laundered more than £26m, some of which was used to fund an organisation accused of working with Russian security agents to spread misinformation and destabilise countries opposed to Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Evidence compiled by the Moldovan parliament suggests that about £1.5m has been washed through the accounts of businesses registered in Glasgow and Edinburgh and ended up in the bank account of the Warsaw-based non-government organisation Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF)

Its director Lyudmyla Kozlovska was banned from travelling in the European Union last August.

The cash was allegedly used to fund lobbying campaigns on behalf of Veaceslav Platon, a Moldovan oligarch jailed last year for his part in a billion-dollar banking fraud, and Mukhtar Ablyazov.

Ablyazov is a former