A third senior Tory has been linked to a firm slammed by MPs for its ties to Vladimir Putin .
Ex-Tory party chair and former boss of the BBC Chris Patten is the director of a City recruitment firm which has been hired by Russian energy giant En+, the Daily Mirror can reveal.
The Foreign Affairs Select Committee has raised serious concerns about En+, which is “controlled by billionaire and Kremlin associate Oleg Deripaska”.
The revelation comes after we exposed links between two other senior Tories - ex-Tory Energy minister Lord Barker and ex-Tory leader Lord Hague - and En+.
Last month’s damning FASC report on Russian “dirty money” in the UK came just weeks after Donald Trump slapped sanctions on En+ and Mr Deripaska - a close ally of President Putin - in the wake of the Salisbury plot to kill Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
The Mirror can reveal that in a bid to free itself of these US sanctions, En+ has hired City headhunting firm Russell Reynolds to search for new independent directors.
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