Sentences with phrase «saudi intelligence service»

The measure means that while the Electoral Commission can now publish information about any donations since July last year — and in the future — it is still banned from sharing key information about donations to Northern Irish parties during a period which included the European referendum, when the DUP received # 435,000 for their Brexit campaign from an unknown source via a secretive group in Glasgow whose chair set up a company in 2013 with the former head of the Saudi intelligence service.

Despite our numerous revelations about the CRC and the surprising connections of those involved with it — including the former head of the Saudi intelligence service, a Danish spy accused of flying hundreds of rifles to West Bengali terrorists, the Brexit minister, an English weapons manufacturer and American billionaire Robert Mercer — we still don't know where their funding came from.

Jeffrey Donaldson has admitted to openDemocracy that he did not know about the links between Richard Cook and Saudi intelligence services.

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Lord Goldsmith is understood to have been warned that the flow of vital intelligence from the Saudi Government to the British secret services could be impaired following a break between the two governments over the contracts, thereby endangering national security, particularly during the war on terrorism.

Saudi Arabia is a major trading partner and is also seen as crucial to Britain's intelligence services.

When openDemocracy challenged DUP MP and Brexit campaign manager Jeffrey Donaldson about the donation in his constituency office this spring, he told us that the party had done proper «due diligence» on the donation, but then claimed that they hadn't known that the chair of the Constitutional Research Council had set up a business in 2013 with the former head of the Saudi Arabian intelligence service.

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