Millionaire art dealer Ehud Sheleg has bankrolled the Conservative Party to the tune of more than £3.5 million since 2017 - and his cash helped Mr Johnson secure his landslide victory in the 2019 election.
He was given a knighthood and made party treasurer six months before the election.
But according to the New York Times, a donation of £450,000 in February 2018 has been flagged to the National Crime Agency (NCA) by Barclays bank, who say the cash originated in the Russian account of his father-in-law Sergei Kopytov.
Mr Kopytov, now a property mogul, was a senior politician in the previous, pro-Kremlin government of Ukraine.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/major-boris-johnson-donor-suspected-26946479
Good Morning Friday 8th May 2026
Voting. I’m so glad we still have the ‘old fashioned’ system…


