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Johnson’s friend in mystery £700000 loan

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Whitewavemark2 Sun 29-Sept-19 08:37:39

I’ve lifted this title from a headline in the Observer.

It isn’t going away this one is it?

Acuri is now the subject of a police investigation.

It has now been revealed that she lent £700000 to her company, shortly before she received a grant of TAX PAYERS MONEY, of £100000.

It is unclear where this £700000 came from.

Her main company Innotech Assets has negative assets of £350000, and Acuri is being sued in the US for $100000 debt.

Questions

How did the DCMS establish that the company was viable?
It has already admitted to waving a rule that any grant should not exceed half of the company’s revenue.

Guidelines say that grants should only be made to companies based in the U.K. This company appears to reside in California.

Acuri listed her place of residence as the U.K., but in fact she resides in the US

Mark Sedwill the top civil servant said that Acuri was given privileged slots on numerous overseas trade trips made by Johnson.

Why?

Len Duval chair of the GLA has written to Johnson demanding an explanation over the decision to award a friend public funds while mayor if London

And even more trouble for Johnson

The Greater London Authority’s monitoring officer has referred Johnson to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which monitors complaints of police misconduct. Johnson was head of policing and crime, as mayor.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 04-Oct-19 18:24:51

She has indicated that she is willing to sell her story. The tabloids must be foaming at the mouth

varian Sat 05-Oct-19 16:25:19

The American businesswoman at the centre of an alleged conflict of interest involving Boris Johnson has denied that they had an affair but claimed men fall in love with her easily.

Jennifer Arcuri insisted that she and the prime minister were just friends during his time as London mayor, when she received taxpayer money for projects and joined him on trade missions.

She said: “Men just trip over themselves in front of me. They fall in love with me in about ten minutes. . . because I know what to say. That’s what happens. They go insane around me. They’ve been doing it for years. It’s just what happens.”

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnsons-friend-jennifer-arcuri-says-men-fall-for-her-in-ten-minutes-qks7ht77h

Well, if men all fall in love with her in ten minutes, what went wrong when Boris Johnson made all these afternoon visits to her flat and trips abroad with her? She says they were just good friends. Are we to believe he was the only man who didn't fall for her?

varian Mon 07-Oct-19 13:25:14

Jennifer Arcuri: five unanswered questions after TV interview

www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/07/jennifer-arcuri-five-unanswered-questions-tv-interview-boris-johnson

Iam64 Mon 07-Oct-19 21:51:11

I do try not to be rude about other women but, here goes. Ms Arcuri does look no better than she ought to (sorry, it’s my lAncashire roots showing - so to speak)

jura2 Tue 08-Oct-19 08:57:55

I truly don't care what those two got up to- and what kind of 'I didn't have sex with that woman' they did have -

but her answer that it is nobody's business but their own- would only apply if she didn't access huge numbers of contacts and large sums of our hard paid taxes sad maybe she could pay it all back then ...

varian Tue 08-Oct-19 19:36:03

The sad fact is that there are many voters who not only excuse good old Boris for any sexual shenanigans, but for missapropriating public funds and being in the pay of malicious foreign forces.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 08-Oct-19 19:46:57

I see Johnson’s mayoral diary hasn’t got a single mention of meetings with the “friend with benefits”

Lies lies lies

Iam64 Tue 08-Oct-19 21:01:42

I apologise if my post seemed to trivialise the issue of whether Mr Johnson ensured his friend was given over 100,000 of pubic money , as well as access to other work related benefits she wasn't entitled to.
We are all aware that Mr Johnson has been a serially unfaithfully husband (three times to date, I think) The key and only issue is whether he broke the law when in public office.