The wife of a former Putin ally has paid £90,000 for a game of tennis with Boris Johnson as he continues to sit on a report detailing his party's links to Russia
Among those donors named in the report is Alexander Temerko, who worked for the Russian defense ministry and has previously boasted that the prime minister is his "friend," the Times said. Temerko has donated more than £1.2 million to the Conservatives in seven years, according to the report.
Lebedev is not a Conservative Party donor, but his son, Evgeny, is a close friend of the prime minister and repeatedly hosted him for parties at his castle in Perugia, Italy, while Johnson was the mayor of London and the foreign secretary. Concerns were raised about Johnson's decision to attend the events, wherethat "nothing is off the menu from the moment you are greeted to the moment you leave.
"There's the danger that people leak what they have over him or blackmail him with it," a Cabinet minister in May's government told the paper.they think it was suppressed because it highlights extensive connections between Conservative donors and Russia's domestic security agency.
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