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Panorama Delves Into Ashcroft's Corporate Concatenation
posted (January 31, 2012)
Last night we told you about the BBC Programme Panorama that aired on Monday night in the UK. It alleges that Lord Ashcroft misled the stock market and the media about his links to a Johnston International which operated in Belize and other Caribbean countries. Ashcroft reported that he had cut all links to that company - and his attorneys maintain that those ties remain severed.

But Panorama says it has proof - testimonies of former employees and fax messages sent form Johnston to Ashcroft and recovered with his writing on it.

And while that is one thing, what's noteworthy to us is the trail of companies that Panorama producers had to investigate to get to the bottom of Ashcroft's business affairs - a search which led them right to Belize, but still provided few answers. Here's a small excerpt of the show.

Untitled from 7News Belize on Vimeo.

We note that Government's legal counsel have had to do similar searches in offshore registers to sift through the deck of companies with interests in Telemedia, SPEEDNET and Channel 5.

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