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Britain gave a 30-day exemption from asset freeze for Moscow bank. (Original Post)
mia
Mar 2022
OP
Makes one wonder if maybe bj has some money to move before the freeze. What a tool.
Comfortably_Numb
Mar 2022
#1
Russian Tory donor previously married to Putin minister recently gave Conservatives £80,000
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2022
#8
Comfortably_Numb
(3,799 posts)1. Makes one wonder if maybe bj has some money to move before the freeze. What a tool.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)4. Good point.
Bribes.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)2. Did Russia Give A 30 Day Exemption From Bombing The Shit Out Of Ukraine?
I DON'T THINK SO.
Bravo Boris, You Twit.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. Boris Johnson is actually Boris Badenov
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)6. This!👆
Raster
(20,998 posts)5. for all practical purposes, London is Moscow on the Thames...
...and the second home of choice for Oligarchs and their money. Russian money FLOODS London. Much of the ultra high-end real estate in Mayfair and Belgravia is Russian owned.
And let's be brutally frank: Certain members of the British government are also Russian owned. Looking at you, Boris Johnson.
Chainfire
(17,526 posts)7. Hey, everybody has to make a buck, war or no war.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)8. Russian Tory donor previously married to Putin minister recently gave Conservatives £80,000
A Russian Conservative donor previously married to one of Vladimir Putin's ministers gave the party another £80,000 in the last quarter, the latest figures have revealed.
The party accepted £80,250 from ex-Russian banker Lubov Chernukhin in the last three months of 2021, according to figures released by the Electoral Commission today.
A British and Russian citizen, she was married to Vladimir Chernukhin, who was a deputy finance minister under Mr Putin and was chairman of Russian state development corporation VEB.RF, which has been placed under sanctions by the UK this week.
Mrs Chernukhin has donated around £2m to the Conservatives since 2012.
https://news.sky.com/story/russian-tory-donor-previously-married-to-putin-minister-recently-gave-conservatives-80-000-12555719
The party accepted £80,250 from ex-Russian banker Lubov Chernukhin in the last three months of 2021, according to figures released by the Electoral Commission today.
A British and Russian citizen, she was married to Vladimir Chernukhin, who was a deputy finance minister under Mr Putin and was chairman of Russian state development corporation VEB.RF, which has been placed under sanctions by the UK this week.
Mrs Chernukhin has donated around £2m to the Conservatives since 2012.
https://news.sky.com/story/russian-tory-donor-previously-married-to-putin-minister-recently-gave-conservatives-80-000-12555719
She's not the only one, of course; the Tories are afloat on a sea of Russian money from those who have gained British citizenship in the past few years.