viktor fedotov tra nsneft. viktor fedotov denies transneft.ions of wrongdoing, and he never had any interest in british politics and has operated in an open and transparent manner. some of the money from the alleged fraud ended up in the uk helping to pay for viktor fedotov�*s impressive country house. it also funded his company aquind and his donations to the conservative party. the prime minister today defended the vetting process. i see that story today but what i can say on that one is that all these donations are vetted in these donations are vetted in the normal way in accordance with rules that were actually set up under the labor government, so we have had in the whole time. by, government, so we have had in the whole time.— the whole time. a conservative party spokesman _ the whole time. a conservative party spokesman says - party spokesman says fundraising is a legitimate part of the democratic process and government policy is in no way influenced by donations. still to come a bit later in the programme, we will be looking at how chi

lawyers for aquind and viktor fedotov said there was no evidence that funds were embezzled from transneftst in british politics and has operated in an open and transparent manner. some of the money from the alleged fraud ended up in the uk, helping to pay for viktor fedotov�*s impressive country house. it also funded his company, aquind, and its donations to the conservative party. the prime minister today defended the vetting process. i see that story today but all i can say on that one is that all these donations are vetted in the normal way in accordance with the rules that were set up under the labour government, so we vet them the whole time. a conservative party spokesperson said fundraising is a legitimate part of the democratic process and government policy is in no way influenced by donations. richard bilton, bbc news. there's much more detail about the pandora papers and what they reveal on the bbc news website, and on the iplayer. the government's latest coronavirus figures show there were 35,077 new infections recorded in the latest 24—hour period, meaning an average of 34,160

viktor fedotov stays away from spotlight. but his secrets are in the files.,000 kilometres. they reveal he made a fortune from a project that was mired in allegations of corruption. an oil pipeline in eastern siberia. vmcsovsk: transneft - is the world's largest pipeline company, one of the most important infrastructure systems in russia. the pipeline was built by transneft, a company owned by the russian state. in 2008, an audit report suggested the company had lost huge sums to corruption. transneft was paying unnecessary intermediaries, tens of millions of dollars, for services that these intermediaries couldn't provide. so in our calculation, $4 billion was stolen or misappropriated. our documents reveal how mr fedotov and two macro transneft managers secretly owned one of transneft�*s and it's alleged the contractor was paid for doing work that was actually done by transneft itself. the profits were funnelled through a series of offshore companies before ending up in three trusts. two were controlled by the transneft managers, the third by mr viktor fedo

afternoon we have heard about another businessman linked to conservative party donations, called viktor fedotovtium of investigativejournalists and the guardian, bbc panorama has found documents that show how he, viktor fedotov, made his fortune. they reveal how he and two managers of transneft, the russian state oil firm, took money from a pipeline project and shifted it offshore. it looks like they siphoned off more than $100 million and hid the money in secretive trusts. we asked andrew mitchell about it, who is a barrister specialising in fraud cases. if people are able to construct a scheme, whereby they can extract for doing nothing $100 million plus, out of government funds, then the real losers are the men, women and children who rely on the government to give them education, health, roads, social services. lawyers for aquind, and mr fedotov, aquind is his company, say there was no evidence that funds were embezzled from transneft. mr fedotov denies any allegations of wrongdoing, and never had any interest in british politics and has always worked in an open, transparent manner. the con

the billion pound scheme would be built by aquind, a company owned by viktor fedotov.esses have given the conservatives £740,000 including donations to sa tory mps. the reason this matters is that aquind wants to lay a power cable under the channel. you have to ask yourself, why in those circumstances, aquind feels it needs to go to such elaborate efforts and spend such money and so much time to get access to the conservative party. working with the international consortium of investigative journalists and the guardian, panorama has found out how the man behind the plan made a fortune. archive: the total length - of our pipelines is over 68,000 kilometres... documents show how mr fedotov and two managers of transneft, the russian state oil pipeline firm, secretly owned company that was awarded transneft contracts. it was previously alleged in russia that the company was paid huge sums for work that was never done. now, the files show how profits from the transneft contracts were pushed through offshore companies to secretive trusts controlled by mr fedotov and the two