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The BBC and Guardian


[A businessman whose companies
have backed 34 Tory MPs made millions
from an allegedly corrupt
Russian pipeline deal, leaked files show.

Former oil executive Victor Fedotov
owns a firm currently seeking UK government
approval for a controversial energy
link between the UK and France.
A BBC investigation shows he secretly
benefitted from the alleged $4bn fraud in Russia.
His lawyers said
"there is no evidence whatsoever" he behaved improperly.

The revelations come from
the Pandora Papers, a leak of 11.9 million
offshore files obtained by the
International Consortium of
Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
An investigation of the documents in
the UK has been led
by BBC Panorama and The Guardian .

The BBC discovered documents
revealing Mr Fedotov as a secret
owner of a company called VNIIST that
benefitted from hundreds of millions
of dollars in contracts from Transneft,
the Russian state-owned oil and
gas pipeline company.]

BBC Data.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58791274


https://www.theguardian.com/news/202...empire-husband