MM
2018-06-10 09:38:37 UTC
It's all beginning to look highly suspicious. This morning the
Observer newspaper reports on suggestions that Arron Banks, who
bankrolled Nigel Farages campaign, 'met with Russian officials
multiple times before Brexit vote'.
There were, according to the Observer
<quote>
- Multiple meetings between the leaders of Leave.EU and high-ranking
Russian officials, from November 2015 to 2017.
- Two meetings in the week Leave.EU launched its official campaign.
- An introduction to a Russian businessman, by the Russian ambassador,
the day after Leave.EU launched its campaign, who reportedly offered
Banks a multibillion dollar opportunity to buy Russian goldmines.
- A trip to Moscow in February 2016 to meet key partners and
financiers behind a gold project, including a Russian bank.
- Continued extensive contact in the run-up to the US election when
Banks, his business partner and Leave.EU spokesman Andy Wigmore, and
Nigel Farage campaigned in the US to support Donald Trumps candidacy.
</quote>
Suffice to say that it looks decidedly murky, but given the
disappearance of the Skripals from public view after what happened to
them in Salisbury, I'm going to keep stumm now.
But you can still read all about it here:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/09/arron-banks-russia-brexit-meeting
MM
Observer newspaper reports on suggestions that Arron Banks, who
bankrolled Nigel Farages campaign, 'met with Russian officials
multiple times before Brexit vote'.
There were, according to the Observer
<quote>
- Multiple meetings between the leaders of Leave.EU and high-ranking
Russian officials, from November 2015 to 2017.
- Two meetings in the week Leave.EU launched its official campaign.
- An introduction to a Russian businessman, by the Russian ambassador,
the day after Leave.EU launched its campaign, who reportedly offered
Banks a multibillion dollar opportunity to buy Russian goldmines.
- A trip to Moscow in February 2016 to meet key partners and
financiers behind a gold project, including a Russian bank.
- Continued extensive contact in the run-up to the US election when
Banks, his business partner and Leave.EU spokesman Andy Wigmore, and
Nigel Farage campaigned in the US to support Donald Trumps candidacy.
</quote>
Suffice to say that it looks decidedly murky, but given the
disappearance of the Skripals from public view after what happened to
them in Salisbury, I'm going to keep stumm now.
But you can still read all about it here:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/09/arron-banks-russia-brexit-meeting
MM