Republican donor invested in UK firm owned by Tory peer close to Boris Johnson
by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Harry Davies and Henry Dy from World news | The Guardian on (#6CD3M)
Former Tory party adviser Lynton Crosby joined as director three months after hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin invested 1m
A billionaire US hedge fund executive and major donor to US Republican candidates invested 1m in a British company owned by a Conservative peer who was close at the time to the then prime minister, Boris Johnson.
Kenneth Griffin, the founder of Citadel, one of the largest hedge funds in the world, made the personal investment in 2020 in a company set up by Lord Howard of Rising, a Conservative peer whose Westminster mansion served as Johnson's leadership campaign nerve centre" a year earlier.
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