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The chairman of Britain’s cronyism watchdog says the public should be given a “full and frank” explanation as to how a senior civil servant held down a part-time job with a now-bankrupt financial firm that won lucrative government contracts.
The revelations about Bill Crothers are the latest in a tide of information about links between Greensill Capital, a financial services firm that collapsed last month, and former British Prime Minister David Cameron, other government ministers and civil servants. Greensill Capital’s bankruptcy threatens thousands of jobs at a British steelmaker the firm helped finance.
Earlier this week, it emerged that Crothers, who oversaw government purchasing, began working as a part-time adviser to Greensill’s board in September 2015, two months before he left his job as the government’s chief commercial officer.
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