Major Russian Donor Funds Conservative Member of Intelligence Committee | The wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister has gifted thousands to a member of the committee that investigated Russian interference
Major Russian Donor Funds Conservative Member of Intelligence Committee | The wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister has gifted thousands to a member of the committee that investigated Russian interference
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> Conservatives have been criticised for their open-arms approach to Russian money since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, and the Byline Intelligence Team can reveal that Lubov Chernukhin recently gifted £6,500 to Conservative MP and former minister Theresa Villiers, according to the latest register of member’s interests.
> Villiers is a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee, which published a long-delayed report into Russian influence in the UK in July 2020. The so-called ‘Russia Report’ concluded that “Russian influence in the UK is the new normal”, encouraged by donations to political parties. Chernukhin was not named by the Russia Report, nor was any other individual donor.
> Chernukhin – the largest female political donor in British history – has given more than £2.2 million to the Conservative Party since 2012, yet the BBC’s Panorama recently uncovered [her connection](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61080537) to sanctioned oligarch Suleiman Kerimov.
A little more on Tory / Russian / Lubov / Kerimov / Temerko / Fedotov connections, with copious links, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/v8g1zx/tories_have_taken_62000_from_russialinked_donors/ibq80b9/).
….. Remember when we worried about US influence on UK politics.
Led by corrupted donkeys ?
That is what it takes to stop been sanctioned.
You pay off the conservative mobsters
We need to purge these FSB (KGB) agents from British politics and media. Let’s start with Lord Lebedev.
Yeah!!!! No Russian interference in Brexit my arse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No conflict of interest here. Move on. /s
I think at this point we should just merge r/unitedkingdom and r/notthethickofit and have done with.
When can we just start calling this treason?
And yet Tory commenter will try to call people crazy conspiracy theorists for talking about Tories being under Russian control because Boris is trying to Churchill himself with Ukraine.
At least that doesn’t stink like a five day old haddock.
Villiers and Intelligence in a sentence without the world corruption at the end, seems odd.