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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Mikey Smith

Inside billionaire Tory treasurer's cosy dinners to link wealthy VIPs with ministers

Super-rich VIPs were given private access to senior ministers at cosy, undeclared dinner parties arranged by a controversial billionaire hired as chief Tory treasurer by Rishi Sunak.

And a firm used by Egyptian-born Mohamed Mansour to donate £600,000 to the Tories paid $3.85 million in additional tax following an investigation by HMRC.

Meanwhile, the firm apparently scrubbed references to its operations in Russia, after the Sunday Mirror revealed Mr Mansour had continued to make cash from the region even after the invasion of Ukraine.

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