OfS chair defends tycoon amid ‘Russian-linked’ funding scrutiny

Tory peer Lord Wharton ‘disgusted’ by ‘attacks’ on Ukrainian-born energy tycoon, whose firm he has advised and who donated to him as MP

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March 4, 2022

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