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Jan 18 14 tweets 3 min read
New thread. Now onto the violent Leave EU Airplane tweet targeting Cadwalladr. “It felt like a long time to see my face being hit,” she tells the court. She does not recall Banks making an apology for it. Witness statement below
Another debate about references in the witness statement and Cadwalladr’s citation of @openDemocracy and another article about Banks’ diamond mines. Witness statement below
“There was a wealth of investigative journalist that pointed out the mines were not viable” says Cadwalladr of Banks’ diamond mines. McCormick suggests it would be ‘irresponsible’ to ignore contrary evidence. Getting a bit testy now
McCormick asks if Cadwalladr knows the difference between a ‘diamond mine’ and a ‘concession’. She says ‘no’. They got to an @openDemocracy article on 29 March 2018
The article refers to Banks’ diamond mining concessions in Lesotho.
The headline in @openDemocracy is “anyone who thinks they can find diamonds there is delusional”
Another geologist disputes expert Whitelock’s opinion according to Hunter Kennedy the expert employed by Banks. “I’m writing this in the context of other experts saying it was unviable” says Cadwalladr.
“There were multiple investigations that suggested there weren’t many diamonds,” says Cadwalladr of Banks’ diamond mines.
More discussion of the diamond mines. Here’s more from Cadwalladr’s witness statements.
Now onto STM Fidex, the firm that incorporated Banks’ Brexit campaign vehicle. One of the directors was arrested on money laundering at that time. Here is the witness statement and the @openDemocracy links. Cadwalladr thinks Banks had sold his share in the company by that time
*STM Fidecs
12 April 2018 - Cadwalladr emails Banks for a right of reply over her Cambridge Analytica scoop. Banks says “Gunster is the genius on Brexit” rather than Cambridge Analytica
“A perfectly friendly exchange,” Cadwalladr concedes.
The article is published 14 April 2018.

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Jan 18
New thread. McCormick turns to the email cache.*

*Full disclosure. I was involved in this.
McCormick mentions a researcher. Cadwalladr says she obtained them indirectly. The emails were given to Isabel Oakeshott.
McCormick says more than 10,000 emails were exchanged between Oakeshott and the Banks and Wigmore. She says she doesn’t know about the arrange Oakeshott had. Oakeshott told Cadwalladr she ‘wished to put this information into the public domains”
Read 15 tweets
Jan 18
Back for the final session today of Banks v Cadwalladr. McCormick is resuming his cross examination of Cadwalladr about Banks contact with the Russian embassy betwee Nov 2016, and November 2017
*Between. Now we’re looking at an article Cadwalladr wrote in the Observer about Electoral Commission’s inquiry in November 2017.
Cadwalladr’s article is about the wash of dirty money into London, and people “financially benefiting” from the Brexit vote. It references a number of people, including Mr Banks and Bad Boys of Brexit and the Oleg character who introduced him into the Embassy
Read 5 tweets
Jan 18
New thread from Banks v Cadwalladr. Banks’ QC is questioning the Observer journalist about this section of her witness statement. Did she join Banks’ call for a judge led inquiry
“I don’t see where you’re going with this, Mr McCormick” says Cadwalladr. “You don’t need to. You need to answer my questions” he retorts.
This is the day the Electoral Commission opened its investigation into the sources of Mr Banks’ wealth and he said he only had one ‘boozy lunch’ with the Russian Embassy (changing from two in her interview with him)
Read 9 tweets
Jan 18
Back after lunch in the case of Banks v Cadwalladr. The Observer Journalist is being cross examined by Banks’ counsel, William McCormick QC — I’ll 🧵from here 🔽
Cadwalladr is being quizzed over an interview with banks in March 2017 about references to his Russian wife, and her embroilment as a peripheral figure in a spy scandal around an MP
McCormick references a discussion about whether Banks spoke Russian. He wouldn’t engage in speaking Russian with her.
Read 23 tweets
Jan 18
Back after a break at Court 13 of the Royal Courts of Justice in the case of Banks v Cadwalladr. William McCormick QC is cross questioning the Observer journalist for Banks
“The subject of Russian influence was obviously on my mind” but Cadwalladr but “there was no suggestion of direct Russian money into Brexit, so it was an odd thing to say. The question was answered without me raising it”
“It was a profile piece, trying to understand why Mr Banks had made statements in favour of Russia… trying to understand Mr Banks and the offshore structure of his companies. It was about opening things up,” she says of the first Banks interview
Read 30 tweets
Jan 17
Gavin Millar asks for more evidence from Arron Banks that he stopped receiving funding from corporate financing because of the TED talk. He says it was a phone call.
“It would be wrong for me to say this was the sole reason” clarifies over stopping receiving funding after the TED talk. “It was said the litigation had been flagged” in the due diligence. “They might have taken exception to something else” he concedes
Banks says the mention of him in the TED talk was a “personal animus” and only cited him because of the picture of him in the Gold Lift with Trump. “I don’t know whether she hates me or doesn’t,” says Banks.
Read 13 tweets

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