Major Donor to Britain’s Conservative Party Linked to Russian Corruption Scandal Patrick Elliot, Franz Wild
A Russian tycoon whose company and its directors have donated £1 million ($1.3 million) to the Conservative party has been linked to an historic corruption scandal in his home country that involved businesses he was connected with pocketing enormous commissions for state contracts, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal.
Viktor Fedotov, 73, was the chairman of two companies that made more than $100 million from a pipeline construction project found to be mired in fraud, costing the Russian state vast sums.
In August this year Fedotov was revealed to be the owner of Aquind, a company that has donated heavily to the Conservative party while seeking ministerial approval for a $1.5 billion energy infrastructure project, the building of an underwater power cable running from Portsmouth in England to France.
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Laundromat on the Thames Mir Adnan Aziz
In his ‘History of England’, famed economist and philosopher David Hume encapsulates the British Empire’s mindset. It reads: “The British conquerors in India directed their pursuits to one object exclusively, the acquisition of money. They considered in every transaction of war, peace or alliance what money could be drawn from the inhabitants. They pillaged not with the ferocity of soldiers but with the cool exactness of debtor and creditor”.
The British Empire exists no more. What is sermonized to us, the lesser mortals of this world, are the virtues of law and justice in an exemplary democracy. A stark contradiction has Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) reporting that “90 billion pounds is being laundered in the UK each year”. The amount is twice Britain’s total defense budget. NCA identified Pakistan as one of the top three countries who’s politically exposed persons (PEPs) invest siphoned pu
Pakistan rejected an extradition flight from the UK amid a diplomatic row over its former PM
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Updated: 15 Dec 2020, 8:53
PAKISTAN refused to accept an extradition flight from the UK amid a deepening diplomatic row over its former Prime Minister.
Britain forked out £300,000 chartering a plane to take around 40 deportees from London to Islamabad.
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Britain chartered a plane to take deportees from London to Islamabad but Pakistan withdrew clearance for the flight to landCredit: EPA
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The international row is over ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, who was released from jail there but failed to return to serve a seven-year term for corruptionCredit: AFP or licensors
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MP earning cash from plantation where thousands of slaves died
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An MP is earning money from a Caribbean sugar plantation where thousands died during the colonial slave trade.