Emails show oil firm questioned complex structure of Blair’s company,and reveal his closeness to Chinese leadershipRevealed: Blair courted Chinese leaders for Saudi prince’s oil firmWhen Jonathan Powell, the gatekeeper to the corporate empire of Tony Blair, or sat down to lunch with the former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Faisal Al Turki in June 2010 he could not have known how lucrative it would turn out to be for the former British prime minister.
As the tall-profile mediator of the stuttering peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,Blair had to be careful not to mix commerce with pleasure. However, one of those lunching with Powell at the annual “global mediator’s retreat”, organised by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,was looking to invent a deal.
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Source: theguardian.com