🇷🇺 Russia has been accused of hiring a network of British pols & consultants to help advance its criminal interests & to “go after” V. Putin’s enemies in London, MPs who drew up the Russia report suppressed by Boris Johnson were told.
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Financier and political activist Bill Browder told an intelligence committee of parliament that Moscow had been able to “infiltrate” UK society by using well-paid British intermediaries.
Some had “reason to know exactly what they are doing & for whom”, & others helped Russia unwittingly.
Labour & Conservative party members, former intelligence officers & diplomats formed this network, Browder says, mainly to attack Putin critics, “enhance Russian propaganda and disinformation” & to “facilitate & conceal massive money-laundering operations.”
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Browder’s claims false and “totally groundless.”