The Political Party of the “Super-Rich”: Moscow Connections



The British Conservative Party of the “super-rich” has clearly had an ongoing relationship with Russian money for many years and took almost half a million pounds in 2019 from just three wealthy individuals with close ties to Moscow (Ref. 2). Political donations in Britain need urgent reform.
However, the financial support from Lubov Chernukhin (wife of Putin's ex Finance Minister), Alexander Termerko (ex Yukos oil man) and Vasily Shestakov are just the tip of a very large hydrocarbons-berg that has been growing for many years. Alex Nekrassov is a major player in London. The notorious 2013 Billingsgate fundraiser (Ref. 1) where Borisova, May and several others prostituted their Party was a ramping up of efforts. David Burnside (ex BA) has been heavily involved via his links to all sides, including the DUP who have been most supportive in recent times.
For at least 10 years, Conservatives have regularly claimed that a wide variety of individuals prepared to pay are British citizens, which is true, since many have double nationality. They were essentially allowed to buy passports until recently for a million quid, few questions asked, under the Tier 1 Visas scheme introduced in 2008 to allow individuals with at least £1m to invest to remain in the UK on a long-term basis (Ref. 4). This was seen as a speedy way for wealthy foreign nationals and their children to become British citizens. The price was raised in 2012 to 2 million quid. Various sources in Russia no doubt often provided the money in order to bring their people in. UK Home Office anti-corruption checks are well known as a complete joke. The same schemes operate in Malta, Cyprus and Moldova, although Moldova is a little cheaper than Great Britain (Ref. 5).
Many greedy hypocrites accepted funds and pretended that Russia was somehow a normal democracy in transition and not a petro gangster state. This was a standard City of London 1990s fantasy and lie which has utterly corrupted it and the Conservative Party, so hugely supportive of “The City” for many decades. For Example, as recently as May 2019 there was a friendly ladies dinner attended by May, Rudd and Leadsom, amongst others (Ref. 3).
1.    Guardian (2014), “Who Sat With Whom at the Conservative Party Fundraising Dinner with an £11bn Guest List”. 1st July 2014.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2014/jul/01/-sp-conservative-party-fundraising-dinner-11bn-seating-plan
2.    Guardian (2019), “Tories Have 'Ongoing Relationship with Russian Money,' says Labour”,
www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/08/tories-have-ongoing-relationship-with-russian-money-says-labour
3.    Times (2019), "Russian Donor Lubov Chernukhin’s Dinner with PM", 1st May 2019.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russian-donor-lubov-chernukhin-s-dinner-with-pm-8w3wpd0qz
4.    Financial Times (2012), “ Moscow’s Rich Buy £1m Entry Into UK”, 30th November 2012.
www.ft.com/content/a0d6be06-3aff-11e2-b3f0-00144feabdc0
5.    Forbes (2019), “How The World’s Wealthiest Obtain 'Golden Passports' To The U.K. And EU”, 22nd July 2019.



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