Tratos, another industrial-grade cable infrastructure firm, has given £56,000. More than £32,000 came directly from the company, and a further £24,000 was donated by its CEO, Maurizio Bragagni, who is an active Conservative.
Meanwhile, Scottish Power has given £8,400 to the Conservatives. It has simultaneously given the same sum to the Scottish Labour Party, and has a history of donating identical amounts of cash to both Labour and the Conservatives.
The Tories took a further £58,000 from Bayford and Co, a firm that says: “energy has always been our core business”.
The chief investment officer at the Motor Fuel Group, Thomas Biggart, has given £30,000, while the chair of Murex Energy, Michael Samuel, has also given £25,000.
And £50,000 was donated by Access Industries (UK) Ltd, a conglomerate owned by Russian oil tycoon Len Blavatnik, which covers energy, finance and entertainment. Blavatnik was named as Britain’s richest man in this year’s Sunday Times Rich List.
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