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| Tony Blair has Middle East Financial Interests |
| 2010-03-20 |
| The London Daily Telegraph and the London Daily Mail have published findings on former Prime Minister Tony Blair's Middle East financial interests as disclosed by the official UK government committee which vets former ministers' business interests. The Daily Mail described Blair as waging an “extraordinary two-year battle to keep secret a lucrative deal with a multinational oil giant which has extensive interests in Iraq', referring to the just revealed fact that Mr. Blair serves as advisor to a South Korean firm, UI Energy, since August 2008, and has made at least £20million since leaving Downing Street in June 2007. In addition, the daily claimed, the former head of state who is now the European Quartet's envoy to the Middle East “went to great efforts to keep hidden a separate £1million deal advising the ruling royal family in Iraq's neighbour Kuwait', since June 2008, reportedly with the task of producing a £1million report on the oil state's future over the next 30 years. |
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