Based on my professional experience as a former Russian investment banker and taking into account my personal experience as well, I have reasonable grounds to be certain that Mr. Tony Blair on one side and Mr. Putin and Gazprom (the Russian state-controlled gas monopoly) on another, reached a secret arrangement in 2004. I am confident that Tony Blair agreed to make sure that the British government would provide its consent to a potential purchase of Centrica (the British holding company that owns British Gas) by Gazprom in exchange of a transfer of funds in GBP equivalent to approximately USD 8.2 million to finance re-election campaign of Tony Blair in 2005. Putin and Gazprom clearly realized that if Gazprom had made an official bid to purchase Centrica, the British public and political opposition would have raised their strong concerns. In order to placate such opposition and to prepare the public they had envisaged the British Labour government to provide its consent to the sale. Tony Blair was quoted by mass media with positive comments on the proposed sale. I think that strong criticism on Iraq war and domestic policies prevented him from delivering to the Russians what he initially had promised. I think that the issue was discussed during a short official visit of Putin to the UK in 2006. I have submitted my information and my allegations to the Metropolitan police in 2006, namely to Mr. John Yates, then Deputy Assistant Commissioner (by registered mail). I have equally informed Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Charles (by registered mail), as well as a number of leading British politicians: the Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, MP (by registered mail), the Rt. Hon. Sir Manzies Campbell, MP (by registered mail), Mrs. Sarah Teather, MP (by registered mail) and Mr. Angus MacNeil, MP (by fax). I have reasons to be confident that my allegations had been investigated, confirmed and included in the file that was submitted in 2007 by the Metropolitan police to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that was in a position to make a final decision on the case. Prior to that and only a week after my letter to HMQ, the Metropolitan police arrested Ms. Ruth Turner, the closest aide of Tony Blair, widely referred to as gate-keeper, who was specifically put in charge of inter-government relations. Lord Levy, the key fundraiser to Tony Blair, was equally arrested by the Metropolitan police. There was no connection between inter-government relations and cash-for-honours, unless my allegations are taken into account. Tony Blair himself was interviewed several times by the police investigators from cash-for-honours inquiry team lead by John Yates. The last interview took place after my letter to Her Majesty the Queen (dated 15.01.2007). Before that interview there were leaks to mass media that the police team were planning to question Mr. Blair under caution which by itself was considered as just one step prior to be presented with criminal charges by the police. The police investigators, as was quoted by the British mass media, were considering incriminating perjury and preventing of the cause of justice to Ruth Turner, Lord Levy and apparently, to Tone Blair as well. As was equally leaked to the press the office of Prime minister had assured the Metropolitan police that once Tony Blair had been invited for an interview under caution he would have presented his resignation to the Queen. The police team had chosen to be more cautious and interviewed Tony Blair as a witness again taking into account high sensitivity of the issue. Even in case they thought they had had enough unequivocal evidence at that time to prove the case beyond any reasonable doubt they were not in a position to make a final decision that could have completely destabilized the politics of the UK. I have reasons to be confident that at some point, due to highly sensitive nature of this case all parties that become aware of the circumstances reached a political arrangement for Mr. Blair to leave his position of the Prime Minister and no criminal charges to be launched against him or/and his close colleagues (Lord Levy and Ruth Turner). Not surprisingly, British politicians were not prepared to acknowledge directly or indirectly that the leader of British Labour party, acting Prime minister of the UK had agreed to accept financing for his re-election campaign from a foreign government (led by the former officer of foreign intelligence) in exchange for a consent to sell a major national asset. I do strongly believe in the following. If the final file submitted in 2007 by special police team led by John Yates to the Crown Prosecution Service had been made public, it would have revealed that Tony Blair was guilty of perjury and preventing the cause of justice (which is a felony). Equally, I do think that Tony Blair acting in a position of the prime-minister of the UK and a leader of the British Labour party had committed an act of treason by accepting cash from Russian authorities and Gazprom in exchange for an arrangement to guarantee British government consent to sell Centrica (British Gaz) to Russian Gazprom. I am wondering if there is any chance to find any unbiased and independent journalists (or any activists who may have similar public concerns) who may be in a position to launch a relevant inquiry? I think I should mention that I am a former witness in a legal lawsuit that was launched in Washington, D.C. in 2005 by a group of US-based investors against the Russian Federation, Gazprom, Rosneft and a number of Russian government officials (Mr. Sechin and Mr. Kudrin) related to so-called "YUKOS case" (Allen, et at. v. Russian Federation, et al., Civil No. 05-2077, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, action for expropriation of YUKOS Oil Company). I will highly appreciate any comment and your kind advice and suggestions.
Victor , I respond on the basis that you are telling the truth as you see it , regardless of any opinion I may have formed . Firstly , I don't know what you are doing on this site . The vast majority here are young , inexperienced and not well educated . The likelihood of anybody being able to assist you is , in my opinion , remote . I cannot understand why you want to do more than you already have .If you want to profit from your privileged information you should approach a Newspaper like The Dail Telegraph or the Guardian . If you want expert advice I would consider getting into contact with Boris Berezovsky or possibly Alexander Lebedev , assuming you trust the latter . My guess is that a story like this , if true , is too hot to handle by anybody at this point in time . There will be people in our Government and Security Services who will be aware of at least the incident in outline . I can think of many reasons why the reasons for keeping quiet about it far outweigh attempting it to get it coverage in the short term . My guess is you would be told exactly what you can and cannot do , and warned of dire consequences if you chose to try and deceive . Further , if Putin's entourage have an inkling of you and your story , and believed you had hard proof , your life would be worth very little . You would be eliminated . Everything depends on the quality of your alleged evidence . Hearsay evidence would be treated with contempt , as would anything that is not independently verifiable by acknowledged experts . If you have been separately petitioning either on behalf of Yukos or Khordkovsky or both , you are known and there will be a detailed risk assessment file on you with all concerned parties . Something to ponder on . Other persons perhaps worth contacting are Yuri Felshtinsky a Russian Historian based in the US , and Alex Goldfarb who is closely connected with the case of Litvinenko and , I gather , an acquaintance of Berezovsky . In conclusion , I perhaps cheekily say that either you have an overworked imagination , or you are sitting on potential dynamite . It is debatable that you should be talking publicly about it , if there is even some truth in the scenario . Good Luck
You sound like one of those weird eMails I got about someone wanting to give me 20 million dollars if I just called them with my bank account numbers. If what you say is true, some reporter somewhere would have picked up on it and we would know what you know.
That's a lot of work for what will ultimately be no reward. But, if I were you, I would be looking out of my windows to ascertain if I am now being observed by the nameless ones.
With respect you obviously don't have personal experience of how business is done in this part of the world . I am not defending the story .Just simply saying it is not as barmy as some might first think ,imo
Victor , Why not re-post this Topic as it stands within the Western Europe section . Americans can't identify with it ( More than four lines and you are pushing your luck ) and are far too busy with their soppy Racist nonsense to bother about something really interesting .
