THE VERY TANGLED MONEY TRAIL
11 MAY 2020
Russian banker Dmitry Leus’s wife transfers £200,000 to William Bortrick’s Burke’s Peerage account marked ‘Charitable Donation HRH Prince of W’ Bortrick sends £100,000 to The Prince’s Foundation
Bortrick sends £50,000 to Wynne-Parker’s company Introcom International
Bortrick holds £50,000 ‘on account to be sent to Prince’s Foundation following due diligence process’
3 SEPTEMBER 2020
Mrs Leus sends a further £300,000 to William Bortrick’s Burke’s Peerage account also marked ‘Charitable Donation HRH Prince of W’
Bortrick sends £150,000 to Wynne-Parker’s company Introcom International
24 SEPTEMBER 2020
Following ethics committee review, Prince’s Foundation returns £100,000 to Bortrick who then sends it to Children and the Arts – an obscure charity linked to a Jordanian bank and now set to close
25 SEPTEMBER 2020
Bortrick sends further £100,000 to Children and the Arts, giving them £200,000 in all. He retains another £50,000 for Mr Leus.
OF THE £500,000 DONATED…
£200,000 is with Wynne-Parker
£200,000 is with the now defunct charity Children and the Arts
£100,000 is ‘retained for Mr Leus’ by Bortrick
£0 is with Prince’s Foundation