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Britain seems ready to unravel how deep-rooted Russian influences are in its policy after a parliamentary report on the Kremlin's interference in its democratic processes was published this week. In this sense, today, the newspaper The Times , has assured that two 'tories' participants in the Intelligence Committee responsible for said study, in addition to 14 other high-ranking members of the party, received tens of thousands of euros in donations from individuals or companies connected with Russia.

The British Electoral Commission has detected that at least eight Cabinet members, six junior ministers and the two members of the Intelligence Committee received this money, which, although not illegal, raises ethical dilemmas due to the tense relationship that currently exists between the two countries. The published report pointed out that this interference in the democratic processes had become the "new normal", since, based on money, these people, directly or indirectly related to the Russian intelligence services, had managed to expand their networks of influence. at the highest levels of British society.

That is why, after the publication of the report, the fact that two of the members of the committee, Theresa Villiers and Marck Pritchard, both from the Conservative Party, are on that list of beneficiaries of the money , best evidence of the contradiction that exists in the UK. That is why, yesterday, they were asked to choose between returning donations or resigning from their position.

Villiers , who had been Secretary for the Environment, received more than 2,000 euros through the party headquarters in Chipping Barnet in October last year from Lubov Chernukhin , a Russian oligarch who has given almost 1.8 million euros to tories since 2012. For his part, Pritchard received almost 6,000 euros from the energy company Aquind in June 2019, the company of which is director Alexander Temerko , former head of a Russian state arms agency.

"All of the donations we receive are made out of goodwill, are properly processed, and come from permitted sources. Furthermore, all of them are duly declared to the Electoral Commission and Parliament to ensure transparency and to comply with our legal obligations," Pritchard argued for. through a statement.

However, from the party led by Boris Johnson there are those who resist giving up this money, and that is that Brandon Lewis , representative of the conservatives in Northern Ireland, has come to assure on Times Radio that it would be "racist" to prohibit donations a person for their nationality . "The reason you know who has donated to me is because it is public. They are British citizens and have the right to be part of democratic processes," he previously explained on Sky News. "My personal experience tells me that they have never asked for anything in return, they do it because they really support what the conservative party does."

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