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Some Background On Ekaterina Paderina & Arron Banks The Tory Backer!
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Some Background On Ekaterina Paderina & Arron Banks The Tory Backer who switched to supporting Nigel Farage’s Ukip!
‘Spy MP’ helped Russian woman in mafia inquiry
Documents show that Mike Hancock involved himself so closely in the case of the second woman that he hand-delivered a letter to her
Hancock’s parliamentary assistant Katia Zatuliveter is in detention awaiting deportation (Chris Ison)A Liberal Democrat MP whose parliamentary assistant has been accused by MI5 of being a spy intervened to stop another young Russian woman being deported. She was being investigated by Special Branch detectives over possible links to the Russian mafia.
Documents seen by The Sunday Times show that Mike Hancock involved himself so closely in the case of the second woman that he hand-delivered a letter to her, confirming her permission to remain in Britain. Her husband at the time, whom she had married to stay in the country, has accused Hancock of having designs on his wife.
Hancock’s parliamentary assistant, Katia Zatuliveter, 25, is in detention awaiting deportation. MI5 believes she is an agent of the SVR, the Russian intelligence service.
The scandal has threatened to escalate into a full-blown diplomatic incident, with the Russian embassy insisting she is not an agent, and has raised questions over whether Hancock was compromising himself by becoming overly involved with young, attractive Russian women. Ekaterina Paderina, then aged 25, married Eric Butler, then 54, in 1998 within months of meeting him in Portsmouth, where Hancock is an MP. Butler said he was questioned by Special Branch in 1999.
“There were concerns about whether Ekaterina was in the country for legitimate reasons,” said Butler, now 66 and a retired ship steward.
Another source, who knew Butler and his wife, said he was also questioned by a Special Branch officer about Paderina.
“It wasn’t her specifically that Special Branch were interested in; she was merely a cog in what they were looking at,” said the source. “To put it very bluntly, they were looking at a Russian mafia connection to Portsmouth.”
Butler said he realised shortly after his wedding that Ekaterina had married him only so as to remain in Britain. Despite the marriage, the authorities made attempts to return her to Russia, and the couple approached Hancock for help. Butler said he quickly developed reservations over involving Hancock.
“I could see him looking at her in his office in a certain way,” he said. “One day I came home and found them both in the conservatory, and Ekaterina had her legs positioned in a way which was very provocative and Hancock was leaning forward in his chair. I got angry and told him I would thump him if he didn’t get out.”
Hancock wrote letters on Paderina’s behalf to Barbara Roche, the immigration minister at the time, supporting her application to stay in Britain.
An entry in Paderina’s diary in September 1999, seen by The Sunday Times, stated: “Mike Hancock arrived, we had a chat, he gave me a letter which said that I have been granted another visa for a year. Immediately it was like having a huge weight taken off my shoulders.”
After being divorced by Butler in 2001, Paderina quickly remarried another British man. Paderina, now 37 and with the married name Banks, said she had no knowledge of Special Branch’s interest in her. She denied ever having had an inappropriate relationship with Hancock and said she could not remember a confrontation between Butler and the MP in their house.
Of her relationship with Butler, she insisted their marriage had been “valid” but added: “I didn’t marry Eric Butler for love.”
Asked if her motive in marrying him was to stay in Britain, she said yes.
Hancock denied having behaved improperly with Paderina. He admitted writing letters on her behalf but denied any knowledge of police involvement.
When told of Paderina’s diary entry, he said: “I might have dropped off a letter at their house but I was certainly never in their house. I’m not that stupid.”
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It is interesting to note that Ekaterina Paderina’s new married name is Banks and it would seem her husband Aaron Banks became the principle backer of Ukip with an income and resources that seem far from transparent6!
This correspondence between Ukip’s Press Office, the Farage gofer Gawain Towler and Gerard Batten thus becomes even more interesting:
From: Gawain Towler <gawain@gmail.com>
To: Gerard Batten <gerard.batten@btinternet.com>
Subject: Fwd: Evening Standard Letters – Katia Zatuliveter
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:27
Gerard,
Can you help here?
G
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From: <joshua.neicho@standard.co.uk>
Date: 6 December 2010 14:22
Subject: Evening Standard Letters – Katia Zatuliveter
To: Gawain Towler gawain@gmail.com
Gawain hope all is well with you. I am following up our coverage about the
British Lib-Dem MP Mike Hancock’s assistant Katia Zatuliveter. Would any
UKIP MEPs with a particular knowledge of Russian diplomacy be interested in
commenting and would you possibly be able to help with something I am
working with the newsdesk on?
Josh Neicho
Evening Standard Letters
020 7938 7596
News, 6 December
The sister of suspected spy Katia Zatuliveter was under investigation today
as it emerged that she posted an internet advert promising to help other
Russians come to Britain.
Miss Zatuliveter’s older sister, Polina, works at the admissions office of
the University of Central Lancashire and used the web to offer free
assistance to any of her fellow citizens wanting to study here.
“Do you know anyone who would like to study in England? Summer schools,
colleges, university? I can help (for free),” her advert stated.
Polina is understood to be married to a British businessman, Andrew
Cowburn.
The disclosure about her ad came as MI5 continued to investigate her
sister, 25, parliamentary assistant to Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock.
Katia Zatuliveter is facing deportation over alleged links with Russian
intelligence.
MI5 aims to assess whether any alleged espionage by Miss Zatuliveter might
have been part of a wider operation involving other possible spies.
She was arrested on Thursday and is being held at an immigration detention
centre, appealing against her deportation order. She came to the UK three
years ago to study at Bradford University.
She held a Commons pass and underwent security vetting before taking up her
position as Mr Hancock’s full-time assistant two and a half years ago. She
worked previously for him as an intern.
The latest developments came as the Kremlin considered how to react over
Miss Zatuliveter’s detention, including possible tit-for-tat expulsions,
while Moscow newspapers hailed her as a “sex bomb” spy to rival Anna
Chapman, who was arrested in the US earlier this year.
The newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets trumpeted: “Chapman has a rival as the
most sexy spy”.
Another mass-selling paper claimed Britain was taking revenge on Russia
trouncing England in last week’s battle to host the 2018 World Cup.
“If the English had not received a slap in the face in the elections for
the 2018 World Cup, there would have been no spy scandal,” said the
staunchly pro-government Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“All this looks like a petty act of revenge on Russia. Gentlemen — this is
not sporting.”
The latest alleged spying case follows the arrest of Chapman, 28, and nine
other alleged spies in New York and their expulsion to Russia in a Cold
War-style spy-swap deal with Moscow.
Chapman had earlier married and divorced a former British public schoolboy
and had lived in London for six years.
“Highly intelligent” Katia Zatuliveter was educated at the same Russian
university as Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin, himself a former KGB
spy.
She comes from the deep south of her country, the resort city of Mineralnye
Vodiy, where local sources suggested the family was affluent and
well-connected.
Andrei, the father of Katia and Polina, is listed as Russian representative
of a Lancashire-based company called Choices (Northern UK) of which his
son-in-law Andrew Cowburn is a director.
Set up in March, the company aims to offer “information, advice, guidance
and application support to international students wishing to study in the
UK”.
News, 6 December
A review of parliamentary security checks was demanded today in the wake of
allegations surrounding MP’s assistant Katia Zatuliveter.
The call came as it emerged that Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, who
employed Miss Zatuliveter, had access to a swathe of secrets useful to
Russian intelligence through his membership of the defence committee.
Sources said the Portsmouth South MP would also have been an “ideal target”
for Russian agents because of his constituency’s naval links and because he
had a relatively low profile.
His position on the committee would have allowed him to see confidential
documents and given access to important installations during committee
visits.
Chris Bryant, the shadow justice minister and the Labour MP who ousted Mr
Hancock from chairing the all-party Russia Group, said the episode must
trigger a full review of Commons vetting. He said Russian spies were
swarming over London in the same numbers as during the Cold War because of
the capital’s position as an international political centre.
Miss Zatuliveter, 25, underwent security vetting before taking up her
position. Mr Hancock is standing by his assistant, insisting that she has
“nothing to hide”. He has challenged the security services to produce
evidence against her.
Mr Bryant said: “Those who think that Russia is a transformed country are
clearly wrong. This is a regime one should not be aligned to.”
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