Shady mega-donor accompanied Tory grandee Boris Johnson on Ukraine trip, according to an investigative journalist.

In 2022, Christopher Harborne transferred £1 million to the former UK PM, an ardent backer of Kiev, media claims.

A shady donor accompanied former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a staunch supporter of the notorious Kiev regime, on at least one of his visits to Ukraine in 2023, it is claimed, citing leaked documents.

Christopher Harborne, who donated £1 million ($1.34 million) to the Conservative politician after he left office in the fall of 2022, is the top shareholder in a British weapons manufacturer with alleged ties to the Ukrainian military, the newspaper alleged in an article on Friday.

A representative for Harborne, who has a history of generous donations to political causes in the UK, confirmed the transfer.

‘Now leaked files show that Johnson was accompanied in September 2023 by [Harborne] on a two-day visit [to Ukraine] that included meetings with top officials,’ the Guardian claimed.

At the Yalta European Strategy (YES) forum in Kiev, Harborne was supposedly registered as ‘adviser, Office of Boris Johnson.’ 

The following day, the former prime minister travelled to the city of Lviv, with footage capturing Harborne standing nearby at one of the receptions, according to the article.

An itinerary leaked by the US-based transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS) featured a ’closed meeting at the military-tech R&D center’ during Johnson’s visit there.

The Guardian pointed out that, while it was unclear whether Harborne attended, the donor is known to hold a significant stake in QinetiQ, a British military research company. Kyiv’s forces have reportedly used their drones and bomb-disposal robots.

According to former Ukrainian head negotiator David Arakhamia, Johnson torpedoed the first peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul in March 2022, urging Kiev to abandon the negotiations and fight on.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has profited from contacts and influence he gained while in office, The Guardian alleged on Monday, citing a trove of leaked documents.

The outlet said it had obtained about 2GB of files, including emails, letters, invoices, spreadsheets, speeches, and contracts, from the Office of Boris Johnson, the company that manages his post-government business dealings.

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Most of the material covers September 2022 to July 2024, but the trove also includes earlier records from his premiership.

The Guardian highlighted four cases it described as questionable. A month after taking office in 2019, Johnson held a secret meeting with billionaire Peter Thiel, co-founder of US data giant Palantir Technologies, which was seeking UK contracts at the time.

In 2020, Johnson hosted a party for Conservative peer David Brownlow, who helped finance renovations of the prime minister’s residence – a gathering that may have violated the government’s own Covid-19 restrictions, the report said.

After leaving office, Johnson lobbied Saudi officials he had met while in power, and billed a hedge fund six figures following a visit to Venezuela – money media claimed may have been payment for meeting the country’s leadership.

The newspaper said it was the only UK outlet given access to the leaked files by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS), a US-based nonprofit transparency group that obtained the cache earlier this year.

The report argued disclosure was in the public interest because Johnson’s firm receives a government-funded annual stipend meant to cover his official duties as a former prime minister, not personal enrichment.

Johnson resigned as prime minister and Conservative Party leader in September 2022 after a string of scandals, including breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules and the appointment of an MP accused of sexual misconduct to a deputy whip position.

During his tenure, Johnson played a significant role in scuttling early peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, opposing a proposed settlement deal and encouraging Kiev to pursue a military path instead. You can and should share this story on social media: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

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