One wonders who funded the ‘Leave’ campaign in the UK ‘Brexit’ referendum. A shadowy group with ties to Saudi intelligence donated over US$500,000 to the largest unionist political party in Northern Ireland during United Kingdom’s EU membership referendum. Newly released secret documents reveal that the major donor to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) during the campaign was a shadowy group called the Constitutional Research Council, chaired by the Scottish Conservative Richard Cook. Cook is the founder of a company with close ties to Saudi Arabian elite and intelligence service. Sputnik News reports: The donation to the DUP, which ran to US$528,000 (£425,000), funded pro-leave adverts across the in the weeks leading up to UK’s referendum on EU membership, and was initially kept secret due to Northern Ireland’s stringent donor secrecy laws. However, pressure from activists forced the party disclose its major donor was a group called the Constitutional Research Council. DUP need to come clean over relationship with Brexit funding group – @JohnODowdSF https://t.co/n7dhVo2M5p pic.twitter.com/Tixs93GMJQ — Sinn Féin (@sinnfeinireland) February 27, 2017 Little is known about the group — it has no website, references to the organization online are lacking and it’s not a registered company or charity — and it’s unclear why it contributed such a significant sum to [...]
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