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Exclusive: Tory MP earns £900 an hour from arms firm run by bribery suspect

Labour accuses Mark Pritchard of bringing Parliament into disrepute over job with North Macedonian company

By Ethan Shone
Exclusive: Tory MP earns £900 an hour from arms firm run by bribery suspect
Mark Pritchard refused to say if he was aware of the bribery scandal. | UK Parliament
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A Conservative MP is set to earn £900 an hour from a North Macedonian arms company whose owner was embroiled in a bribery scandal, openDemocracy can reveal.

Mark Pritchard, who has been the MP for The Wrekin since 2005, began working for the firm ATS Group in November – but only declared it in Parliament’s transparency register last week.

ATS Group’s owner and CEO was arrested in Belgrade in 2019 following a months-long investigation by Serbian authorities into allegations of bribery over the alleged theft of technical documents from a rival arms manufacturer in Užice, Serbia.

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