Sunday, 1 December 2019

BORIS JOHNSON'S BACKERS


Vladimir Chernukhin (right) and his friend Nat Rothschild.


One of the largest single donors was Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of the Russian oligarch Vladimir Chernukhin. She donated £200,000 to the Conservative campaign.

Chernukhin previously paid £160,000 for a tennis match with Johnson.

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REVEALED: The secretive club of super-rich donors who’ve bankrolled 80% of the Tory election campaign. New exclusive research shows Russians, hedge funds, big oil are among the biggest givers.

The secretive Leader's Group has given more than £130 million to the Conservative Party since 2010.

Revealed: The elite dining club behind £130m+ donations



Jewish Alexander Temerko and Boris Johnson.

The Conservatives' elite donors include the Russian businessman Alexander Temerko, who calls himself a 'friend' of Johnson.

'Earlier this month, openDemocracy revealed that the Conservatives had become increasingly dependent on money from Russia-linked donors.' 

Wafic Said - In 1981 his son Karim died in an incident at the home of Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia.[5][11]

'Other regular guests at Leader’s Group meetings include Rosemary Said. 

Ms Said's husband, Syrian-born Wafic Said, helped broker the UK’s biggest arms sale - the Al-Yamamah deal - signed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1985.


Asfari

Ayman Asfari, chief executive of UK oil and gas firm Petrofac, has given the Conservatives nearly nearly three-quarters of a million pounds.

Asfari was questioned by the Serious Fraud Office over allegations of bribery and corruption at the Jersey-based company.

In 2019 it emerged that the British government had underwritten a £750 million loan to Petrofac following meetings between Asfari and two cabinet ministers in 2016.

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