I'm guessing those security briefings had nothing to do with this at all
Telegraph article, paywall removed
Telegraph article, paywall removed
Rees-Mogg investment firm offloads Russian bank shares amid Ukraine tensions
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Aladdin
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Dominic Johnson mentioned in the article..
"Dominic Johnson CBE was appointed as a non-executive board member of the Department for International Trade in November 2020. He is Chair of the department’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.
Dominic is founding partner and Chief Executive of Somerset Capital Management a $7 billion global emerging markets specialist investment company.
Prior to starting Somerset Capital in 2007, he helped to build Lloyd George Management from $1.5 billion to $16 billion under management between 2001 and 2007.
Dominic has spent the last 25 years in entrepreneurial, international finance starting his career at Robert Fleming in 1995, before moving to Jardine Fleming, Hong Kong, in 1998. He set up various dotcom business in the early 2000s and ultimately moved into asset management in 2001.
He was vice-chairman of the Conservative Party between 2016 and 2019."
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Iffy or what..
"Dominic Johnson CBE was appointed as a non-executive board member of the Department for International Trade in November 2020. He is Chair of the department’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.
Dominic is founding partner and Chief Executive of Somerset Capital Management a $7 billion global emerging markets specialist investment company.
Prior to starting Somerset Capital in 2007, he helped to build Lloyd George Management from $1.5 billion to $16 billion under management between 2001 and 2007.
Dominic has spent the last 25 years in entrepreneurial, international finance starting his career at Robert Fleming in 1995, before moving to Jardine Fleming, Hong Kong, in 1998. He set up various dotcom business in the early 2000s and ultimately moved into asset management in 2001.
He was vice-chairman of the Conservative Party between 2016 and 2019."
Lord Johnson
Lord Dominic Johnson of Lainston CBE was appointed Minister of State in the Department for Business and Trade on 7 February 2023. He was previously Minister of State (Minister for Investment) in the Department for International Trade between 24 November 2022 and 7 February 2023. He was Minister...
Bloody obvious choice. My grandfather had a whole pile of shares in Russian railway companies prior to the day they became worthless. This is common sense. As it turned out, first of all, the intricately engraved share certificates became collectors items in themselves, and also sometime during the 1990's there was actually some sort of payout for them. (He was long gone by then). But dumping dodgy shares is a thing you do when you wake up in the night with that niggling feeling 'all is not well'... Take too long about it and you are a bitcoin/gold/tech-share investor. Oops.
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I would imagine that all senior bankers will have seen this coming, if they didn't they shouldn't be in the job.
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