Leading Brexit campaigners held secret meetings with Russian officials arranged by suspected Kremlin

[TomSea]

Leading Brexit campaigners held secret meetings with Russian officials arranged by suspected Kremlin spy before referendum, report says
Thomas Colson

    Explosive emails suggest the Brexit campaign's biggest donor met with Kremlin-linked figures multiple times before the referendum.
    The emails, seen by the Sunday Times, alleged that Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who funded Brexit campaign group Leave.EU, was reportedly offered a business deal involving six Russian goldmines.
    It forms part of a mounting pile of evidence that Russia attempted to influence British democracy and engineer the EU referendum in favour of Brexit.

LONDON — The Brexit campaign's biggest donor secretly met with Russian officials multiple times before the referendum to discuss business opportunities, according to an explosive report.

Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who funded pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.EU, was reportedly offered a business deal involving six Russian goldmines.

Read more at: http://www.businessinsider.com/arron-banks-brexit-russia-leave-eu-met-with-kremlin-figures-to-discuss-business-opportunities-2018-6

More coverage:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5826649/Millionaire-Brexiteer-Arron-Banks-faces-storm-ties-Moscow.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revealed-brexit-backer-arron-bankss-golden-kremlin-connection-7nbwc7m58

[endicom]

That Russians try to manipulate votes is not news.

That opportunists try to benefit from any situation is not news.

[jpsb]

The damn Ruskies are everywhere!

[endicom]

The damn Ruskies are everywhere!

Here?

[GtHawk]

Here?

Well there a couple of members whose views....................

[Sanguine]

I'm not sure I believe it.  Or, at least the conclusions.  The propaganda campaign against Brexit has been very, very powerful.

[dfwgator]

The damn Ruskies are everywhere!

[TomSea]

Counter-propaganda, disinformation, possibly. 

[TomSea]

We have at times, tried to influence elections, they say so about under Obama.

People shouldn't be so gullible if fake news was put out on social media like twitter.

[dfwgator]

We have at times, tried to influence elections, they say so about under Obama.

People shouldn't be so gullible if fake news was put out on social media like twitter.

Every powerful nation has tried to influence elections,  the Brits tried bigtime in the late 1930s to try to defeat Isolationist candidates.

[truth_seeker]

"was reportedly offered"

[Sanguine]

Brexit campaigner Banks says story on Russian ties ‘absolute garbage’

June 10, 2018

By Guy Faulconbridge and Paul Sandle

LONDON (Reuters) – Arron Banks, a British businessman who bankrolled one of the main campaigns for Brexit, hit back on Sunday after a report said his links with Russia went further and deeper than he had previously disclosed, saying he was a victim of a “witch hunt”.

Britain has said it had not seen evidence of Russian interference in its votes, but lawmakers are investigating whether the country tried to influence public opinion before the EU referendum as part of a broader inquiry into “fake news”.

Banks said he would tell a committee of lawmakers on Tuesday about his connections with multiple countries during the referendum campaign.

“It wasn’t just the Russians: we met all sorts of nationalities, we also briefed the State Department in Washington, we also met with the top embassy officials in London,” he told Reuters.

“So if we are Russian spies, we must be American spies too.”

http://www.oann.com/brexit-campaigner-banks-to-face-lawmakers-over-russian-links/