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Aug 25, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
NEW: An Islamist terror suspect and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist have acquired official roles in a branch of Unite and are using it to infiltrate Labour

Unite Community is meant to represent the jobless. But leaked docs reveal it's "ok to join if you work" thetimes.co.uk/article/suspen…
Laura Stuart: arrested for sharing propaganda by an Al Qaeda linked preacher; now secretary of Unite Community Barnet

Phil Vasili: tweets extensively about Mossad masterminding 9/11; chair of Unite Community Camden

Glyn Secker; Corbyn pal; Unite Community delegate to CLP
.@wesstreeting says Unite Community is becoming a backdoor to "cranks, conspiracy theorists and racists”, calls for a Unite and party investigation.

Unite said it is concerned about efforts to smear its members. However, it also said Stuart had "resigned" last night

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May 16
BREAKING 🚨 Pensions minister Paul Maynard found guilty of expenses breaches after inquiry by IPSA following Sunday Times investigation

Blackpool North MP Maynard:

1) used taxpayer funds to "produce overly political materials promoting the [Conservative] party and his re-election"

2) "under-reported" Tory use of taxpayer funded office



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Maynard has been ordered to repay cash used to rent state-of-the-art printer and produce Tory leaflets.

He's made another repayment after claiming his party did not use his taxpayer funded office when it did.

And his abuse of the rules has led the IPSA investigator to propose all MPs are banned from using their offices for party purposes in any context.
Damning findings do not find wrongdoing over Maynard's extraordinary £106,000 total claims for printing - top of any Tory MP - as "comprehensive audit" impossible due to "resource constrains"

But two breaches are clear and admitted by MP, leaving him exposed to referral to standards commissioner.
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Apr 6
EXCLUSIVE 🚨 The Sunday Times has obtained "black box" data from a tracking device inside the Mercedes rental car used by Akbar Shamji — a suspect in the case of teenager Zac Brettler's death.

We have used its GPS data to create minute-by-minute reconstruction of his movements on the night.

It shatters his story and shows he lied to police repeatedly during their investigation.

Met had the data, but failed to analyse it in depth, so never confronted him about inconsistencies, such as his claim he was at home during fatal fall:



🧵thetimes.co.uk/article/the-de…
Former bankrupt crypto investor Shamji and gangster Dave Sharma were the last people to see Brettler alive.

They confronted him about money they felt he owed them before he jumped off a 5th floor flat opposite MI6 headquarters.

A coroner delivered an "open verdict" meaning his death was suspicious but its cause unknown.
Before and after his death, Shamji was driving a rental vehicle fitted with a state-of-the-art tracking device, whose data we have analysed over several months.

He told police he went home hours before Brettler's fatal jump at 2.24am. In fact, he was in the same building. He had returned after taking call from Sharma and suddenly speeding back at 80 km/h. He went upstairs and remained alone with Sharma for 11 minutes.

Data shows other striking details such as detour over Vauxhall Bridge just after he had gone down to the river by foot and "looked for Zac" in the water.
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Mar 21
Here's a vintage example of FOI vandalism I've been dealing with.

The department: David Cameron’s Foreign Office.
The subject: David Cameron’s lobbying career.

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In January 2023, Cameron visited Sri Lanka.

While there, he met the president twice. Once at his residence. Another time at lunch with the British ambassador.

Within months, he was being paid to drum up investment for Port City Colombo, a highly controversial Chinese infrastructure project.

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In November 2023, shortly after Cameron’s appointment as foreign secretary, I asked the Foreign Office for copies of:

1) any notes or memos about the former PM’s trip to Sri Lanka
2) any correspondence with his team beforehand

I specifically asked for any emails from/to Laurence Mann, Cameron’s long-term adviser who was involved in the Greensill scandal and who now works for the Foreign Office.

Under law, I was supposed to get a response within 20 working days. In other words, by 21 December.
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Feb 11
I was privileged to know Zac Brettler when he was a little boy.

Following @praddenkeefe's investigation into his death, I spoke to his extraordinary parents.

Today, they give The Sunday Times previously unpublished evidence about the night their 19-year-old jumped from a balcony after a confrontation with a gangster.

It poses huge questions of the Metropolitan Police. Like crime-scene photos of the blood-like smears detectives somehow did not swab or test... (1/6)

thetimes.co.uk/article/the-me…
And a photo of the glass balcony from which Zac jumped to his death. Even police believed it had been "wiped" before they arrive at the scene.

Again, it does not appear to have been tested... (2/6)

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Texts on the day of Zac's death in which the gangster Dave Sharma told his associate Akbar Shamji: “He’s not allowed to run away now.”

And a message from Shamji, who said: "It’s going to be resolved, like one way or the other.” (3/6)
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Jan 6
EXCL w/@domhauschild

Rishi Sunak's pensions minister is under investigation for spending taxpayers cash on Tory Party in his marginal seat

Paul Maynard broke expenses rules, lashed out at whistleblower

He spent £160k on printing-more than any Tory MP 🧵thetimes.co.uk/article/minist…
Maynard has for years used publicly-funded constituency office as Tory campaign HQ and used taxpayer funded printing kit to produce political leaflets

Both are banned by expenses watchdog IPSA, which last night said:  “In light of the additional information provided by ..." 2/9
The Sunday Times, we will be referring this to the compliance officer."

3/9
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Aug 19, 2023
EXCLUSIVE 🚨 w/@HarryYorke1

The king's cousin fixed a private jet and luxury safari holiday for Oleg Deripaska while he was sanctioned by the US

Lexi Bowes-Lyon - NY-based Brit at US charity - did so in 2021, years after Putin ally sanctioned by America thetimes.co.uk/article/royal-…
Her employer, UK and US registered charity Space for Giants, says: “We are not in a position to confirm or deny that Space for Giants has or has not breached US sanctions in relation to the 2021 safari given that no competent authority has ever ruled on this."
The charity was questioned as part of a DOJ/FBI investigation into Deripaska sanctions violations

It says it cooperated as “witness"

It will not say if it disclosed involvement of US team in Deripaska holiday

US persons face 30 years in prison for dealing with sanction people.
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