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Oligarch, and of a kgb agent. it is ver disputed whether there is such a thing as a former kgb agent. to quote vladimir putin. he once said in one of his famous press conferences, he said once a spy always a spy. whether or not that is the case, that was the father not the son and we are talking about the son. but what was happening with the independent at the same time, evgeny lebedev had just taken over the newspaper and it was very clear about his reputation, him trying to come across as a different kind of figure and i knew that he had gone to africa on various reporting trips and also cut...

Means, i should say — seemed to have such good access to borisjohnson. paul caruana galizia, you've explored this question too for tortoise media. take us back to the beginning. i mean, in 2009, the russian businessman and former kgb agent alexander lebedev bought the london evening standard for £1. his son, evgeny, became the paper's publisher. a year later, they bought the independent also for £1. just tell us a bit about it all. so we released the podcast on the monday before the sunday times followed it up. and it was commissioned actually in december — and back then, we thought it w...

And it was only on 17 march that they finally got that advice. and they met to discuss it in a committee room in parliament, and were so disturbed by it, they immediately wrote to the prime minister, saying, "we feel deeply uncomfortable about this nomination, about evgeny's nomination. and would you reconsider, or would you consider an alternative ? " which they proposed. and he did indeed end up becoming a peer. that's right. so two days after that vetting report was discussed, evgeny met with boris johnson at downing street, and a few days after that, borisjohnson, the long and short of it,...