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Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron, has an estimated net worth of £4 million as of June 2012 , apart from speculations about the value of offshore funds which may amount to tens of millions - if these speculations were true then Cameron would be guilty of tax evasion, a criminal offence, rather than tax avoidance. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years and Director of Urbium (tiger tiger bars).
Camerons friends and contributors:
Can you tell a man by the company that he keeps? These are people who donated direct to Cameron:
Lord Steinberg
Gaming magnate Leonard Steinberg, has donated £530,000, plus a loan of £250,000. He died in 2009
Hedge Fund and Bank Friends and Donors(The people below are major donors and Cameron's dinner guests)
Mike Farmer
Mike and Jenny Farmer: Mr Farmer was named as the new Tory treasurer this year. The hedge fund tycoon, who has donated more than £3.3million to the Tories, made his £100million fortune in the international metal markets.
Mr Farmer, 69, founded RK Capital Management whose main fund, Red Kite, is one of the biggest industrial metals hedge funds in the world. Dubbed ‘Mr Copper’, his companies are responsible for supplying 15 to 20 per cent of all of China’s demand for the metal.
Farmer was CEO of MG PLC. In 2000, trading company Enron bought MG for $448 million and renamed it Enron Metals. Farmer won’t say how much he earned from the deal. In January of 2002, Sempra Energy Trading agreed to pay $145 million in cash to acquire Enron Metals Limited. They announced they would retain the top management of the company, yet the new setup would not have any room for Michael Farmer, who was head of the physical metals operation, Enron Metals & Commodity Limited. Sempra decided to only buy the futures side of the business, leaving Mr. Farmers side (EMC) in bankruptcy administration. In 2006 Farmer formed Red Kite.http://www.checkfundmanager.net/diligence/?p=1324
Stanley Fink
Hedge-fund owner Stanley Fink has donated £103,000, even though he was a declared supporter of Mr Cameron’s leadership rival, Liam Fox.
Michael Hintze:
The 58-year-old former Australian army captain founded the £5billion hedge fund CQS, and has given and loaned several million to the party since 2005. The soldier turned banker has personally donated £1.24million since Mr Cameron became leader, with CQS adding another £33,000.
A September 30, 2008 article states that conservatives (UK) accepted donations from hedge fund speculators, including Michael Hintze, who were being blamed for stoking the current market turmoil by short-selling banking shares. It has been reported that Mr. Hintze has been a major contributor to the Conservative Party in the UK, donating £2.5m in 2006, according to: http://www.checkfundmanager.net/diligence/?p=1275
Sir Paul Ruddock:
Hedge fund trader who cashed in on the credit crunch was given a controversial knighthood in the New Year Honours list in January.
His firm, Lansdowne Partners, made a staggering £100million from the financial crash by betting that the price of Northern Rock shares would fall and also predicted likely slide of other banking shares. Ruddock, 53, has personally donated more than £521,000 to the Tories since Mr Cameron became leader.
Henry Angest:
Mr Angest, 71, is the Swiss-born chairman and chief executive of merchant bank Arbuthnot. A former Tory treasurer, he has personally donated £773,364.39 to the Tories under David Cameron, and £59,293 through his banking group of which he owns 53 per cent.
Michael Spencer
Mr Spencer, 57, is the group chief executive of ICAP plc, which has made a vastly profitable business out of the electronic brokering systems used by banks. He was treasurer of the Conservative Party from 2007 to 2010. With a £1.15billion fortune he has been ranked as the 62nd wealthiest person in Britain.
Peter Cruddas
set up the spread betting firm CMC Markets, which focuses on bets on the financial markets. The firm acts like a bookmaker to the City, allowing pinstriped punters to place bets on financial events such as share price movements and changes in foreign currency exchange rates. In 2007 the investment bank Goldman Sachs bought a 10 per cent stake in CMC, which valued Mr Cruddas’s business at £1.4 billion.He has given about £350,000 to the Conservative Party in the last two years and also helped bankroll the recent ‘No to AV’ campaign. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1395080/Billionaire-gambling-tycoon-new-Tory-treasurer--despite-tax-dodging-claims.html
CMC Markets has been accused of operating a fraudulent trading platform and a Wire Syphoning Scam although these are just accusations.
Other mates
Charlie Brooks
One of Cameron's old school buddies, is Charlie Brooks, husband of Rebekah Brooks of phone hacking and News of the World fame
Michael Green, 63, famously employed David Cameron before the prime minister left his media group to enter politics. Green built Carlton Communications into the most powerful force in terrestrial independent television until he was ousted in a City coup in 2003. He is now retraining as a psychotherapist and has a £3m stake in a quoted marketing services company, Tangent Communications. His separate Tangent Industries company had net assets of £44.2m in 2009-10 and donates money to David Cameron. With art and property, Green is worth £88m.
http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/celeb/media-mogul/michael-green-net-worth/
Andrew Feldman
Feldman, Co-Chairman, Conservative Party, is one of David Cameron's close personal friends from his university days, and was treasurer of his leadership campaign. He has made his own fortune through his family clothing firm, Jayroma. He was promoted from his position as chief executive of the party to the co-chairmanship.
Feldman was awarded a contract to build a 5 star hotel in Macedonia, linked by the Telegraph with support by Cameron for Macedonian EU membership
Feldman has links to dubious Macedonian companies http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Andrew_Feldman
Oil Companies
Ian Taylor:
Mr Taylor, 55, is the president and group chief executive of the Swiss multinational Vitol, the third biggest oil trading company in the world with revenues of £186billion last year. He personally donated £466,000 to the Tories under David Cameron.
See
Cameron appears to be a moron: Kashmir and the USA
David Cameron: Banker boy turned Hedge Fund man
Cameron adds EU referendum to Tory manifesto
Cameron, Obama, Britain and the EU
The roots of New Labour
House of Commons Register of Financial Interests for CAMERON, David (Witney)
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/051214/memi06.htm
Strangely there is no mention of Blairmore Holdings (Blairmore seems to be managed by Panmure Gordon Stockbrokers - where Cameron's father and grandfather worked)
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Fees from BBC. (Up to £5,000) (Registered 17 October 2005)
4. Sponsorship or financial or material support
In my capacity as Shadow Secretary of State for Education support for my office is received from:
Lord Harris of Peckham
Jayroma (London) Limited
(Registered 9 July 2005)
Simon Wolfson (personal donation)
(Registered 5 September 2005)
Abbey Business Centres Ltd
Mr Alasdair J C Currie (personal donation)
Mr Anthony Wigram (personal donation)
Mr Mike Balfour (personal donation)
Mr John Kenny (personal donation)
Tamares Real Estate Investments UK Ltd
Mr Tim Carrington (personal donation)
Mr Jonathan Green (personal donation)
Mr Dominic Vail (personal donation)
Jamie Borwick (personal donation)
(Registered 26 October 2005)
Foroka (Heythrop Park) Ltd
Historical Portraits Ltd
(Registered 31 October 2005)
Eldesfield Consulting Ltd
(Registered 1 November 2005)
Mr Rodney Leach, of London (personal donation)
Mr James McNaught-Davis, of London (personal donation)
Tufton Services Ltd, London
Murphshore Ltd, London
Daniel Janner QC, of London (personal donation)
(Registered 2 November 2005)
Edwina Herrmann (personal donation)
Mark Foster Brown (personal donation)
(Registered 7 November 2005)
Tamares Real Estate Investments Ltd
Jacksons Bournemouth Ltd
Lewis Chester (personal donation)
Robin Fleming (personal donation)
(Registered 9 November 2005)
George Hollinbery (personal donation)
Ken Costa (personal donation)
(Registered 24 November 2005)
Michael Pass (personal donation)
Captain Cloud Limited
(Registered 5 December 2005)
The following donors contributed to my campaign for leadership of the Conservative Party:
Tangent Industries Ltd
Michael Peagram (personal donation)
Lord Chadlington of Dean (personal donation)
Mrs S M Anstey (personal donation)
Mr Dominic Casserley (personal donation)
Insinger de Beaufort
Mr James Lyle (personal donation)
Intercapital Private Group
Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover (personal donation)
Mr Peter Czernin (personal donation)
Mr Trevor Pears (personal donation)
Border Harvesters Ltd (personal donation)
(Registered 26 October 2005)
London and Regional Properties Ltd
(Registered 31 October 2005)
Trevor Pears (personal donation)
(Registered 7 November 2005)
Adam Ayfryie MP (personal donation)
(Registered 9 November 2005)
Ed Hall, of London (personal donation)
Peter Dubens, of London (personal donation)
(Registered 13 December 2005)
5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
2 October 2005, helicopter flight from London to Dewsbury to Blackpool for party conference, provided by David Instance, Sellinge, Ashford. (Registered 17 October 2005)
6 October 2005, plane flight from Blackpool to London provided by Michael Spencer. (Registered 17 October 2006)
13 October 2005, helicopter flight to and from Newcastle and London from JJ Gallagher Estates. (Registered 17 October 2005)
In my role as the Shadow Education Minister, Member of Parliament for Witney and Conservative Party leadership candidate, I have had occasional use of a helicopter from Harris Ventures Ltd, Orpington, Kent. (Registered 28 November 2005)
In my role as Shadow Education Minister, Member of Parliament for Witney and Conservative Party Leadership candidate I have had occasional use of a private plane from Finsbury Sailing LLP, London, for official engagements. (Registered 28 November 2005)
12 December 2005, gift of a Christmas hamper from Lord Harris of Peckham. (Registered 12 December 2005)
7. Overseas benefits and gifts
Gift of a Christmas hamper from His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei. (Registered 14 December 2005)
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