Founder and CEO of Emergent Telecom Ventures Mohamed Amersi speaks during a forum
(Picture: Getty Images)A Tory donor who contributed £10,000 to Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign was involved in one of Europe’s biggest corruption scandals, leaked documents claim on Monday.
Mohamed Amersi, who has given nearly £525,000 to the party since 2018, worked on a series of controversial deals for a Swedish telecoms firm that was later fined $965 million (£700m) in a US prosecution.
Mr Amersi, a 61-year-old corporate lawyer, who denies any wrongdoing, worked as a consultant for Telia between 2007 and 2013.
BBC’s Panorama programme, which conducted an investigation with the Guardian, said the papers show how Mr Amersi was involved in a $220 million payment to a secretive offshore company in 2010.
Mr Amersi’s lawyers said the offshore firm had been “vetted by Telia” and that its involvement “did not raise any red flags” to him.
The documents were among 12 million files dubbed the Pandora Papers leaked from 14 financial services firms to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and also cover the activities of 35 current or former world leaders.
