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Major Donor to Britain's Conservative Party Linked to Russian Corruption Scandal


Major Donor to Britain’s Conservative Party Linked to Russian Corruption Scandal
Patrick Elliot, Franz Wild
A Russian tycoon whose company and its directors have donated £1 million ($1.3 million) to the Conservative party has been linked to an historic corruption scandal in his home country that involved businesses he was connected with pocketing enormous commissions for state contracts, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal.
Viktor Fedotov, 73, was the chairman of two companies that made more than $100 million from a pipeline construction project found to be mired in fraud, costing the Russian state vast sums.
In August this year Fedotov was revealed to be the owner of Aquind, a company that has donated heavily to the Conservative party while seeking ministerial approval for a $1.5 billion energy infrastructure project, the building of an underwater power cable running from Portsmouth in England to France. ....

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