Prince Andrew property sale linked to suspect funds
A BBC investigation has found that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor received millions of pounds from the sale of his former Berkshire mansion through funds linked to a company later implicated in criminal corruption cases. The buyer, Kazakh billionaire Timur Kulibayev, confirmed through his lawyers that he relied partly on a loan from a firm called Enviro Pacific Investments to purchase Sunninghill Park for £15 million. Italian prosecutors later concluded that Enviro Pacific had received money connected to a bribery scheme dating back to 2007. The purchase of Sunninghill Park was completed just weeks after the final payments linked to the alleged corruption were made. Kulibayev reportedly paid significantly above the property’s asking price and market value. At the time, he was among the most powerful figures in Kazakhstan’s oil and gas sector and the son-in-law of then-president Nursultan Nazarbayev. Kulibayev’s legal team […]