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NEW: Leaked documents confirm ties between SCL, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, and passport-sales firm #HenleyandPartners.

An ex-SCL operative says SCL and Henley had a secret quid-pro-quo during a 2009 election in St. Kitts and Nevis. 1/
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Strategic Communications Lab (SCL) has been involved in electoral efforts in dozens of countries — including St. Kitts and Nevis, where it oversaw the election campaign of Denzil Douglas.

Who was paying SCL for its consultancy was a bit of a mystery at the time. 2/
In 2018, a British parliamentary report revealed claims that the secret financier of Douglas’s winning campaign was Christian Kälin, the chairman of Henley & Partners, which managed St. Kitts and Nevis’s “citizenship-by-investment” program. 3/
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NEW: OCCRP and @daphnefdtn have uncovered another potential scandal involving Henley & Partners, a firm that specializes in “citizenship-by-investment” programs.

This one concerns Henley’s chairman, his associate, and St. Kitts and Nevis 🇰🇳 1/ occrp.org/en/investigati…
St. Kitts and Nevis hired Henley in 2006 to set up a program that allowed foreigners who paid at least $250,000 into an economic development fund known as the SIDF to obtain a passport.

The SIDF, we reveal, went on to invest in a business linked to Henley’s chairman. 2/ Image
Henley’s chairman Christian Kälin, aka the Passport King, and his business partner secured a ~$1.2m investment from SIDF, which purchased shares in their firm ASW Capital.

(Side note: ASW was once owned by Harvey Weinstein) 3/ Image
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💰Arron Banks - STM Fidecs Ltd

STM Fidecs Ltd was the first to register Leave.EU as a wholly owned subsidiary. Its ownership then passed to Banks.
theguardian.com/politics/2015/…
🔑Banks was previously a “substantial” shareholder in the firm’s parent company.

📌And the Panama Papers give further details of Banks’s offshore interests. He is listed as a shareholder of PRI Holdings, together with two other people.
theguardian.com/world/2016/oct…
One of them is Elizabeth Bilney, the chief executive of Leave.EU. Documents show Banks owns 25,500 shares in the firm, and Bilney 12,250.
theguardian.com/world/2016/oct…
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