Деталь, на которую я раньше не обращал внимания: жена Аарона Бэнкса - Екатерина Падерина из Екатеринбурга, раннее замешанная в «шпионском скандале» с членом парламента Хэнкоком.
Mr Butler said: “Mr Hancock asked me if I thought there was any future in the relationship but he agreed to help.” He added: “I came home once and discovered Mr Hancock in my conservatory with Katia. They looked very cosy and I was very suspicious. I told him I didn’t like him visiting my wife when I was not there and he became very defensive and angry. According to Mr Butler the marriage broke up after just three months and he filed for divorce. But despite the immigration authorities launching an investigation into Miss Paderina’s status, she avoided deportation. In November 2001 she married a millionaire insurance company director Arron Banks and the couple now live in Bristol with their three children. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8186328/Russian-spy-case-Liberal-Democrat-MP-helped-second-Russian-girl.html
Ekaterina Paderina, to use her maiden name, arrived in Britain in the 1990s to study marketing at Portsmouth University. The daughter of a senior Russian state official, she was swept up in a whirlwind romance with Eric Butler, a retired merchant seaman. The couple tied the knot in November 1998. Butler was 54, Paderina was 25. The marriage soured within months. Soon after they met, friends of Butler say he was questioned twice by Special Branch, the secret police unit responsible for national security. He filed for divorce in February 1999 and within months police were called when Paderina smashed a lamp over her husband’s head. She was charged with aggravated bodily harm. When asked by The Sunday Times, Banks said Paderina hit Butler “with a lampshade, very hard” but emphasised it was in “self-defence”. “She was pregnant at the time of the alleged assault and her ex-husband was a 6ft-plus navy sailor,” Banks explained. “She was acquitted for obvious reasons.” Friends of Butler, however, claim the case collapsed when the seaman refused to give evidence. They say Butler became concerned when Alexander Trifinov, a local Russian, allegedly threatened him on behalf of Paderina. At this point Butler decided to leave the UK. <...> Her father, Evgeny Paderin, is described as “head of government property” in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. Her email address contains the numbers 007 and she drives a Range Rover with the number plate MI5 SPY, although any suggestion that she has a deeper relationship with the Russian state prompts derision from the Banks camp, who say there is no evidence to support the allegation. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/from-urals-to-ukip-racy-tale-of-arron-bankss-russian-wife-wwz2wd92x
Mr Butler said: “Mr Hancock asked me if I thought there was any future in the relationship but he agreed to help.”
He added: “I came home once and discovered Mr Hancock in my conservatory with Katia. They looked very cosy and I was very suspicious. I told him I didn’t like him visiting my wife when I was not there and he became very defensive and angry.
According to Mr Butler the marriage broke up after just three months and he filed for divorce.
But despite the immigration authorities launching an investigation into Miss Paderina’s status, she avoided deportation.
In November 2001 she married a millionaire insurance company director Arron Banks and the couple now live in Bristol with their three children.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8186328/Russian-spy-case-Liberal-Democrat-MP-helped-second-Russian-girl.html
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Ekaterina Paderina, to use her maiden name, arrived in Britain in the 1990s to study marketing at Portsmouth University. The daughter of a senior Russian state official, she was swept up in a whirlwind romance with Eric Butler, a retired merchant seaman. The couple tied the knot in November 1998. Butler was 54, Paderina was 25.
The marriage soured within months. Soon after they met, friends of Butler say he was questioned twice by Special Branch, the secret police unit responsible for national security.
He filed for divorce in February 1999 and within months police were called when Paderina smashed a lamp over her husband’s head. She was charged with aggravated bodily harm. When asked by The Sunday Times, Banks said Paderina hit Butler “with a lampshade, very hard” but emphasised it was in “self-defence”.
“She was pregnant at the time of the alleged assault and her ex-husband was a 6ft-plus navy sailor,” Banks explained. “She was acquitted for obvious reasons.”
Friends of Butler, however, claim the case collapsed when the seaman refused to give evidence. They say Butler became concerned when Alexander Trifinov, a local Russian, allegedly threatened him on behalf of Paderina. At this point Butler decided to leave the UK. <...>
Her father, Evgeny Paderin, is described as “head of government property” in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. Her email address contains the numbers 007 and she drives a Range Rover with the number plate MI5 SPY, although any suggestion that she has a deeper relationship with the Russian state prompts derision from the Banks camp, who say there is no evidence to support the allegation.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/from-urals-to-ukip-racy-tale-of-arron-bankss-russian-wife-wwz2wd92x
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