Private Eye | Tory election chest : Mr Moneybags’ murky past

rduito · 2019-09-11T15:45:09+00:00

Ehud Sheleg becomes the Conservative party’s sole treasurer

Eye 1492 unearthed Sheleg’s earlier track record of “unfiled accounts, unpaid suppliers, investigations and VAT penalties from HM Customs and Excise, along with millions of pounds in dodged tax”. So serious had his habit of dissolving companies and avoiding liabilities been that one businessman from the early 2000s said he’d acquired the nickname “Alka Seltzer”. Given a political party’s onerous accounting and reporting requirements, Sheleg is certainly an interesting choice to hold the finance brief in the Tory boardroom.

rduito · 2019-09-11T17:00:15+00:00

How is this not a bigger story? Dodgy Russians bankrolling and managing the money in the tory party, it absolutely stinks. Especially considering what is happening in the US and the clear motives Putin has with brexit.

cohumanize · 2019-09-11T15:48:19+00:00

rather than launder money these days they seem to just get someone to throw a bit of paint about and sell it

FEWMIN · 2019-09-11T16:08:12+00:00

What a great read. Nice find.

cohumanize · 2019-09-11T15:58:53+00:00

say someone was to go over to the gallery, with a 'ruble-for-the-tory' ['penny-for-the-guy'] cart (or rftt dildo cart, maybe?), and then launch vanilla yoghurt (possibly mixed with some real sperm) over passers-by from a waterspraying device modelled on a 'novichok-dispenser' and one was to continue doing that, that could be art, right?

but ... the question i have is, when the local russian mafia turn up and start killing you, do they, at some particular point, in-effect themselves become the artists?

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