Senior Tory MP provided legal services to company of sanctioned Russian oligarchs  – POLITICO

LONDON — Former U.K. Attorney General Geoffrey Cox was paid £93,000 to provide legal services to a Luxembourg-based company whose shareholders include two sanctioned Russian oligarchs.

Cox, a serving Conservative MP who was the chief legal counsel to former Conservative prime ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson, has declared 62 hours of work for ABH Holdings S.A. since December last year in the U.K. parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests.  

Neither Cox or ABH Holdings responded to POLITICO’s request for comment. There is no suggestion of wrongdoing in Cox’s decision to provide services to the firm, which is entitled to legal representation.