Conservative peer urged to quit board of Russian firm EN+ over oligarch links
by Robert Booth from on (#5WJEK)
Defence secretary says former minister Lord Barker should explain why he works with Oleg Deripaska
The defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has urged the Conservative peer and former minister Greg Barker to quit his lucrative role on the board of Russian aluminium firm EN+ whose owners include the oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Lord Barker, an energy minister in David Cameron's government, earned $4m last year as executive chair of the firm, and devised a plan to help the company respond to US government sanctions levelled against the company and Deripaska in 2018.
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