“Sanctions introduced in the UK and Europe in 2020 were supposed to prevent anyone from doing business with Prigozhin. He had also been sanctioned in the US in 2018.
But a vast cache of hacked emails shows that, under the leadership of Rishi Sunak, the UK Treasury issued special licences in 2021 to let the oligarch override sanctions and launch an aggressive legal campaign against a journalist in the London courts.”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/prigozhin-government-russia-ukraine-hack-libel-slapp/
Anyone remember the Iraqi supergun affire back in the early 90s where british companies were supplying parts for a big gun being built by Saddam, we had a Tory government back then, I can['t remember but I am sure there was a few dodgy deals back then in relation to this too.
