Mandelson named in spy files on oligarch

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BUSINESS secretary Lord Mandelson's relationship with the Russian oligarch at the centre of the "yachtgate" scandal is detailed in secret government intelligence files, the Evening Standard can reveal.

A source has told the Standard that Lord Mandelson's name features repeatedly in files held on Oleg Deripaska. The revelation will strengthen demands for Lord Mandelson to disclose all meetings and dealings with Mr Deripaska, Russia's richest man.

The references to Lord Mandelson appear in files contained on a massive, covert joint intelligence database called Scope. Scope allows Mi5, Mi6, GCHQ and the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre to communicate with each other more quickly and securely than before. It enables the agencies to call up the latest intelligence within 15 minutes.

A source told the Standard: "Peter Mandelson appears in the Scope database. His name appears repeatedly in connection with the business dealings of Oleg Deripaska."

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23577574-details/Mandelson+named+in+spy+files+on+oligarch/article.do

The ghost of KGB/Mossad double agent Robert Maxwell rises from hades!

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1. Oligarch's adviser funds Tory

David Leigh and Solomon Hughes The Guardian, Saturday October 25 2008

A British businessman who represents a Ukrainian oligarch is paying tens of thousands of pounds in donations to the Tories, the Guardian can disclose. Payments made by the businessman's company have caused concern to the Electoral Commission, which queried some of the donations earlier this year.

Pauline Neville-Jones, shadow security minister, former chair of the joint intelligence committee and a key Cameron foreign policy adviser, currently has her office sponsored by Robert Shetler-Jones, a close associate of the foreign billionaire Dmitry Firtash.

A company linked to Shetler-Jones is also making payments to Conservative central office. It is called Scythian Ltd. Shetler-Jones chairs and part owns it.

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Pauline Neville-Jones was a career diplomat and former head of the Joint Intelligence Committee. She left the diplomatic service and joined investment bank NatWest Markets which advised the then Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, on a controversial telecoms privatisation. She then had a stormy period as a BBC governor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/25/partyfunding-conservatives