Arron Banks
| Arron Banks link Twitter (Businessman, financier) | |
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| Born | Arron Fraser Andrew Banks March 1966 |
| Nationality | British |
British businessman and political donor | |
Arron Banks is a British businessman and political donor. He is the co-founder (with Richard Tice) of the Leave.EU campaign.[1][2] Banks was previously one of the largest donors to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and bankrolled Nigel Farage’s campaign to leave the EU.
A UK parliamentary committee report concluded:
- "Arron Banks is believed to have donated £8.4m to the Leave campaign, the largest political donation in British politics, but it is unclear from where he obtained that amount of money"; "He failed to satisfy us that his own donations had, in fact, come from sources within the UK."[3]
Banks has stated that the money he donated to the Leave.EU campaign was legitimate and came from his UK insurance businesses.[4] He has been reported to have had multiple meetings with Russian embassy officials[5] as well as offered business opportunities in Russia in the run-up to the Brexit referendum.[6][7] He has denied any wrongdoing and said:
- "There was no Russian money and no interference of any type."[8]
Banks reportedly pressed the UKIP NEC several times to influence the election of party leadership in exchange for continuing donations. He claimed he was suspended from UKIP in March 2017, but UKIP said his membership had "lapsed earlier in the year".[9]
References
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/10/arron-banks-self-styled-bad-boy-and-bankroller-of-brexit
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/11717415/Millionaire-Jim-Mellon-backs-20million-anti-politics-campaign-to-leave-EU-as-name-revealed.html
- ↑ https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/arron-banks-nca-quote-17-19/
- ↑ "Arron Banks 'dropped from BBC's Question Time panel'"
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/08/arron-banks-met-russian-ambassador-11-times-lucrative-deals
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/16/leave-eu-russia-arron-banks-andy-wigmore
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/16/arron-banks-nigel-farage-leave-brexit-russia-connection
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46089236
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/14/ukip-suspends-donor-aaron-banks-party/
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