This is all too familiar sounding: “Arron Banks – the main donor behind Leave.EU [Brexit] was offered the chance of making potentially enormous profits in a deal featuring a Russian gold company.” #ProtectOurVotes google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg… 1/ 
2/ “Banks has consistently denied receiving money from Russia, but the source of his wealth has been under scrutiny since he gave £9m to Leave.EU, the largest political donation in British history.”
3/ “Though Banks consistently downplayed his contacts with senior Russians before and after the referendum, in recent weeks he has been forced to concede there were a number of meetings – including with Alexander Udod, a diplomat later expelled from the UK for suspected spying”
4/ “Earlier this year the Observer revealed that in October 2015, Udod invited Banks and his business partner Andy Wigmore to meet the ambassador; they shared a “six-hour boozy lunch” at the ambassador’s Kensington mansion a few weeks later.”
5/ “During that meeting on 6 November, the Russians discussed with Banks a potential gold deal. Eleven days later Yakovenko introduced Banks to the Moscow businessman Siman Povarenkin.”
6/ “The exact details of the offer are revealed for the first time in a document obtained by the Dossier Center, an investigative unit funded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an exiled critic of Vladimir Putin.”
7/ “A copy of the presentation, first published by the Russian website Tsur, is understood to have been circulated to a number of people, including Banks. He ultimately did not invest.”
8/ “The Labour MP Ben Bradshaw has queried in parliament Russia’s involvement in Brexit. He said these ‘new revelations beg the question why the Kremlin would offer Mr Banks sweetheart business deals.’”
9/ “Bradshaw said the govt should establish an inquiry, similar to the investigation in the US led by ... Robert Mueller into Russia’s role in subverting the 2016 presidential election. Failing that, it should task the National Crime Agency & the police to investigate.”
10/ “‘Mr Banks has not been fully open about the extent of his dealings with the Russian embassy and the people they put him in touch with,’ Bradshaw said.”
11/ “For two years Banks said he only met the ambassador once. He later admitted to three meetings, revising this to four in a recent interview with the New York Times. The “gold play” pitch was made the same week as Leave.EU’s launch.”
13/ Here is the kicker:
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/910201085192658944?s=21
16/ Similar to ES&S in the US, IDOX (which handled Brexit) “accidentally” leaked voter information.
https://twitter.com/hayleeee1848/status/988431049326841856?s=21
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