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The campaign is over and the work begins. thank you all very much. applause. a well—connected corporate lawyer, mohamed amersi has given £525,000 to the conservative party since 2018. here he is talking about corruption. corruption is a very, very heinous crime. every stolen dollar robs the poor of an equal opportunity in life. but leaked documents show mr amersi was at the centre of a corruption scandal. he worked as a consultant to a swedish telecoms company, telia, helping it to expand its...

Of an equal opportunity in life. so, where did his wealth come from? some of it comes from this company in sweden, a company fined almost $1 billion for bribery. telia was prosecuted over a corrupt telecoms deal. the company paid $220 million to an offshore company secretly controlled by the daughter of the then—president of uzbekistan. the american authorities described it as a $220 million bribe. we have now obtained documents that show how mr amersi was involved in the deal. in one e—mail...

Weve got details of an internal report about a consultant referred to as mr xy, who was paid in excess of $65 million by telia. the payment5 included expenses for lavi5h corporate entertainment. they were usually between $100,000 and $200,000 a month but they were not evidenced by copies of receipts. the internal report recommended that telias relationship with mr amer5i be terminated. who is mrxy? that is mr amer5i. he has been involved in one of the biggest corruption scandal is that we have s...

That the offshore company had been vetted and approved by telia. and that its involvement did not raise any red flags to mr amersi. we have also seen evidence about how he was involved in other telia deals. weve got details of an internal report about a consultant referred to as mr xy, who was paid more than $65 million by telia. the payments included expenses for lavish corporate entertainment. they were usually between $100,000 and $200,000 a month, and were not evidenced by copies of receipts...

Telias relationship with mr xy be terminated. former telia executive michaela ahlberg, who was brought in to clean up the company, told panorama that mr amersi was the consultant referred to in the report. it is important that people around him that trust him, that listen to him, understand the whole context of his career and wealth. he has been involved closely in one of the biggest corruption scandals that we have seen in sweden in modern times. mr amersis lawyer said its entirely false to sug...

The payments included expenses for lavish corporate entertainment, usually between $100,000 and $200,000 a month, that were not evidenced by receipts. it recommended that telias relationship with mr xy be terminated. former telia executive michaela ahlberg, who was brought in to clean up the company, told panorama that mr amersi was the consultant referred to in the report. it is important that people around him that trust him, that listen to him, understand the whole context of his career and w...

So where did his wealth come from? some of it comes from this company in sweden, a company fined almost $1 billion for bribery. telia was prosecuted over a corrupt telecoms deal. the firm paid $220 million to an offshore company secretly controlled by gulnara karimova, the daughter of the then president of uzbekistan. the american authorities described it as a $220 million bribe. we have obtained documents showing how mr amersi was involved in the deal. in one e—mail, a telia boss writes... "i...

So where did his wealth come from? some of it comes from this company in sweden, a company fined almost $1 billion for bribery. telia was prosecuted over a corrupt telecoms deal. the firm paid $220 million to an offshore company secretly controlled by gulnara karimova, the daughter of the then president of uzbekistan. the american authorities described it as a $220 million bribe. we have obtained documents showing how mr amersi was involved in the deal. in one e—mail, a telia boss writes... "i...

And approved by telia and its involvement did not raise any red flags to mr amersi. all of this matters because he has given more than half a million to the conservative party. this morning, borisjohnson gave his reaction. i see that story today but all i can say on that one is that all these donations are vetted in the normal way in accordance with rules that were set up under the labour government. so we vetted them the whole time. a conservative spokesman said government policy is in no way i...

In sweden, a company fined almost $1 billion for bribery. it was prosecuted over a corrupt telecoms deal. the firm paid $220 million to an offshore company secretly controlled by gulnara karimova, the daughter of the then president of uzbekistan. the american authorities described it as a $220 million bribe. we have obtained documents showing how mr amersi was involved in the deal in one e—mail a telier boss writes... "i do not want to be involved in the day to day negotiations, so maybe you c...