Pandora Papers: Businessman linked to Tory donations made millions from alleged fraud - BBC News
Former oil executive Victor Fedotov owns a firm currently seeking UK government approval for a controversial energy link between the UK and France. bbc.co.uk/news/world-587…
His companies have backed 34 Tory MPs .
The Pandora Papers suggest Mr Fedotov as a secret owner of a company called VNIIST that benefitted from hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from Transneft, the Russian state-owned oil and gas pipeline company.
Earlier investigations suggest Transneft lost $millions to fraud with VNIIST being one of the beneficiaries.
Turns out Fedetov, through his companies, has donated £700k to the Tory Party.
AND ….remember Johnson’s mate Termerko and his company Aquind that’s involved in the Electricity cable link line above, is, in fact owned by Fedetov.
Now why would he have wanted to keep that hidden all these years?
His connection to Aquind has been hidden through an exemption to UK company laws granted to people with personal security concerns.
Mr Fedotov is now identified on the company's public records, alongside Alexander Temerko, the Ukraine-born public face & part owner of Aquind
Of course Temerko and Aquind are all tied up with Wharton (now A Baron, of course)
This Wharton…the MP (Yarm) who rarely left London
Well well well.
He’s now Chair of the Office for Students despite having no background in teaching or education beyond his own.
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2/ why is it called “offshore finance?
The countries offering this system were often coastal locations or islands. But that is not true or necessary now. The term “offshore” signifies anywhere that is not a customer’s residence.
That was even higher than the spike in demand for gas during February 2018’s “Beast from the East” cold snap.
Gas prices also hit highs across the continent, where the energy squeeze helped drive down shares, with Europe’s regional Stoxx 600 index falling 1.9% in early trading
The FTSE 100 down 1.8% in London.
High energy usage industries are particularly hard hit, eg steel, fertiliser and chemical plants that produce essential supplies to the market.
Moody’s predicts more firms going to the wall as a consequence.
As I suspected Children aged 12 to 15 may not get Covid jab by half-term in England due to concerns about high infection rates.
Also, I suspect, about uncertainty as to who has had it recently and who has not given the incoherent mitigation (not) policy theguardian.com/education/2021…
“With the half-term break less than three weeks away, some headteachers said they were still waiting to be given a date for their vaccination sessions, while others have complained about not enough vaccinators turning up to meet demand.”
“Further delays are building, because pupils who test positive for coronavirus have to wait 28 days before they can receive the Covid vaccination and need to be offered a later appointment.”
Now just imagine if they’d got on with vaccinating kids in the summer hols