Good on him...oh, hold on...

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18 January 2024
Exclusive: Tory MP earns £900 an hour from arms firm run by bribery suspect

A Conservative MP is set to earn £900 an hour from a North Macedonian arms company whose owner was embroiled in a bribery scandal, openDemocracy can reveal.

Mark Pritchard, who has been the MP for The Wrekin since 2005, began working for the firm ATS Group in November – but only declared it in Parliament’s transparency register last week.

ATS Group’s owner and CEO was arrested in Belgrade in 2019 following a months-long investigation by Serbian authorities into allegations of bribery over the alleged theft of technical documents from a rival arms manufacturer in Užice, Serbia.

In the latest register of MPs’ interests, Pritchard described the firm as an “industrial manufacturing and technology business”. But the firm’s website reveals it is a weapons maker, producing ballistics, ammunition and plant equipment for the production of ammunition...

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/mark-pritchard-mp-north-macedonia-ats-group-arms-weapons-serbia-bribery-arrest-shefshet-demirovski/