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Reform donor labelled a ‘sham’ as billionaire funds Farage’s Davos jollies

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According to the famous HSBC whistleblower Nicholas Wilson, a mysterious Reform donor is actually a “sham company”:

This isn’t a good look for Farage, but then again, when is anything he does a ‘good look’?

Oh, and this billionaire is linked to the “sham company” by the way, so that’s good.

Reform: International man of bullshittery

As Wilson explains, he was “named Mr Ethical by corrupt lawyers”. Regarding his mission to expose HSBC, the Guardian wrote in 2021:

Nicholas Wilson has spent years pursuing HSBC over the way it treated some people who fell behind with payments, and when he claimed the bank might owe customers more than £200m, it arguably sounded pretty fanciful.

For more than a decade he was ignored and dismissed but HSBC eventually set up a £4m compensation scheme to remedy “a historical issue”.

Four years later, the 64-year-old whistleblower says he feels vindicated after it emerged the bank had set aside £223m to pay compensation to customers after an internal review into how it treated some people who were in arrears.

Wilson hasn’t stopped exposing wrongdoing where he sees it, and has frequently directed his attention towards Reform and Nigel Farage — even when no one else seemed interested:

Most recently, Wilson and others have been looking at the links between Farage and the billionaire classes:

As the Guardian reported:

Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos this week was hosted and paid for by the $10bn family trust of an Iranian-born billionaire, the Guardian has learned.

The leader of Reform UK has been touring Davos this week, giving speeches in which he pledged to tax banks and “fight the globalists”.

They added:

Farage’s Davos connection to HP Trust is not Reform’s only link to the Ghandehari family. Earlier this year, it emerged that a small design firm called Interior Architecture Landscape had given £200,000 to Reform in two tranches, according to Electoral Commission data. The company has a low profile, but in planning documents from 2015 it was listed as the representative for a property linked to the Ghandehari family.

This is the company which Wilson has now accused of being a “sham”. While Interior Architecture claims that the Ghandehari family is a client, evidence suggests it could actually be a front:

Given the way money is moving around, Wilson has suggested that ‘money laundering’ is afoot:

Wilson associate The Finance Guy has also highlighted some irregularities:

Blatant

Supporters of Farage may defend him on the basis that this is all too sloppy, and that the Reform leader would be smart enough to not be so blatant.

You’ll be glad to know that Wilson has an answer to that too:

Featured image via Twitter

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.