Sir Tony Blair has spoken at a series of events run by a Kremlin-controlled bank – including a number held after it was sanctioned by the EU following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, it can be revealed.
The former UK prime minister addressed five events organised by Sberbank, or a linked entity, between 2012 and 2020 – three after it was sanctioned by the EU in 2014, and two of which were in the wake of the Salisbury nerve agent attack in 2018.
