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Kremlin interference
The Conservatives have received
Oil magnate Ayman Asfari and his wife Sawsan gave the
Tories a total of £100,000 on May 4.
According to BuzzFeed, even the Tories compliance unit
was not too sure about Lycamobile’s sponsorship, with
worried emails being sent between Conservative officers
about the state of the company’s accounts.
The communications giant was branded a “tax offender”
by the former chair of the public accounts committee,
Labour's Margaret Hodge.
Research dating from 2015 found that nearly half of the
Conservative Party’s benefactors were billionaire hedge-
fund managers.