The Pandora papers: who’s giving money to the Conservatives? – podcast
Fresh questions for the Conservative party today after it emerged one of its major donors was involved in structuring of a telecoms deal later alleged to be corrupt
As the Conservative party continues its annual conference in Manchester, it has emerged from the Guardian's investigation into the Pandora papers that a major party donor advised on the structure of a deal that was later found to be a $220m (162m) bribe for the daughter of the then president of Uzbekistan. Documents show how Mohamed Amersi advised a Swedish multinational telecoms company on a complex transaction that it later accepted was a corrupt payment".
Amersi's lawyers said any suggestion he knowingly" facilitated corrupt payments was false and that the underlying arrangements for the deal had been put in place two years before.They said all his donations were derived from work done for legitimate clients and any suggestion that they were the product of improper funds was false.
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