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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Sparrow Political correspondent

No 10 chief of staff spoken to by FBI about work for banker accused of bribery

Mark Fullbrook leaving Downing Street.
Mark Fullbrook was appointed chief of staff at No 10 after running Liz Truss’s campaign for the Tory leadership. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Mark Fullbrook, the new Downing Street chief of staff, has been interviewed by the FBI as a witness about work he did for a banker accused of bribery, it emerged on Sunday.

Fullbrook was working as a political consultant when he provided research in 2020 for Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan-Italian banker accused of bribing the governor of Puerto Rico around the same time.

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