Blair rakes in money from Iraqi Oil while Middle East Peace Envoy

Daily Mail- Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret: Former PM's deals are revealed as his earnings since 2007 reach £20million
Tony Blair waged an extraordinary two-year battle to keep secret a lucrative deal with a multinational oil giant which has extensive interests in Iraq.
The former Prime Minister tried to keep the public in the dark over his dealings with South Korean oil firm UI Energy Corporation.
Mr Blair - who has made at least £20million since leaving Downing Street in June 2007 - also went to great efforts to keep hidden a £1million deal advising the ruling royal family in Iraq's neighbour Kuwait.
In an unprecedented move, he persuaded the committee which vets the jobs of former ministers to keep details of both deals from the public for 20 months, claiming it was commercially sensitive. The deals emerged yesterday when the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments finally lost patience with Mr Blair and decided to ignore his objections and publish the details.
News of the secret deals fuelled fresh accusations that Mr Blair is 'cashing in on his contacts' from the controversial Iraq war in what one MP called 'revolving door politics at its worst'.
They will increase concerns that Mr Blair is using his role as the West's Middle East envoy for personal gain.
The full extent of his income is cloaked in secrecy because he has constructed a complex web of shadowy companies and partnerships which let him avoid publishing full accounts detailing all the money from his commercial ventures.
Critics also point out that a large proportion of his earnings comes from patrons in America and the Middle East - a clear benefit from forging a close alliance with George Bush during his invasion of Iraq.
Last night Tory MP Douglas Carswell said of Mr Blair's links to UI Energy Corporation: 'This doesn't just look bad, it stinks.
'It seems that the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has been in the pay of a very big foreign oil corporation and we have been kept in the dark about it.
'Even now we do not know what he was paid or what the company got out of it. We need that information now.
'This is revolving door politics at its worst. It's not as if Mr Blair has even stepped back from politics, because he is still politically active in the Middle East.
'I'm afraid I have no confidence at all in the committee that vets these appointments. It's no good telling us these deals may be commercially sensitive - we are talking about the appointment of our former Prime Minister and the public interest, rather than any commercial interests, must come first.'
Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker said: 'These revelations show that our former Prime Minister is for sale - he is driven by making as much money as possible.
'I think many people will find it deeply insensitive that he is apparently cashing in on his contacts from the Iraq war to make money for himself.'
The committee said yesterday that Mr Blair had taken a paid job advising a consortium of investors led by UI Energy in August 2008. The exact nature of the deal is unknown, but UI Energy is one of the biggest investors in Iraq's oil-rich Kurdistan region, which became semi-autonomous in the wake of the Iraq war.
Mr Blair's fee has not been disclosed but is likely to have run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The secrecy is particularly odd because UI Energy is fond of boasting of its foreign political advisers, who include the former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke and several prominent American politicians.
Mr Blair successfully persuaded the committee that the appointment was 'market sensitive' and could not be made public.
The committee agreed to suspend its normal practice and keep the deals secret for three months. Mr Blair then asked for a further extension.
When this ran out last year the committee repeatedly 'chased' Mr Blair about the issue without hearing anything. Eventually the committee's chairman, former Tory Cabinet minister Lord Lang, reviewed the papers and ordered the deal to be made public, along with a separate deal with Kuwait which had been kept secret at the request of the Kuwaiti government.
The decision to keep the deals secret will fuel concerns about the effectiveness of the committee, which has been repeatedly criticised for its failure to halt the revolving door between politics and industry.
The committee is supposed to ease public concerns about former public servants using their contacts for private gain.
Gordon Brown has so far refused to answer questions about whether Mr Blair's arrangements breach his responsibilities under the ministerial code.
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[sirshaneyboy]

Thanks for posting this information.

Tony Blair's behave continues to be sick out of office. The fact that millions of hope-filled Britons voted for this evil calculating slime ball just shows how tragically the political system in the UK has been perverted by the elite. Left and Right don't make any difference anymore. The party elites are just a bunch of sadistic profit-takers, robbing the country of its wealth and morals. Wake up Britain! 1984 has arrived & is thriving in the UK :-(

[91177info]

Sociopaths live for themselves. What he doesn't know is further down the line his relatives will be looked upon negatively as they too would have been brought up on inherited blood money.Information and knowledge can be found with a few clicks today, a bit of research and one can make an opinion free from state programming.

[91177info]

The only safe and comfortable places to be will be the secret circles that generate these lies in the first place. Closed secret societies.

Thats not freedom thats prison.

[91177info]

MaTtRoSiTy comment-

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[MaTtRoSiTy]

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[DuffMan790]

It's clear we're being watched & monitored when posting comments on these vids. I've just been barred from posting on the Yahoo News home page for doing nothing more than posting links to 91177's stuff & more besides on their "Buzz Up" section which allows people to discuss the days news stories. They dont mind them turning into racsist arguments (which they do frequently) but point a sheep in the direction of truth & it's "oh no you dont sonny"...banhammer. Freedom of speech my arse.

[nora4154]

DO you have any documents showing George Bush making the same personal profit ??please post

[hotsatsuma2]

TONY BLAIR

Middle East Peace Envoy

The appointment of the Anti Christ into an area of the World that his and successive governments have raped for oil and influence is matched in its shame by the Church not making a stand against such evil. When such evil exists in this World it beggars belief at the arrogance of the UK government to make such an insensitive appointment whilst harvesting profits from slaughtering of families. jsf

[markscott7777777]

oi tony we are still coming after you and yours with EXTREME HUGGING

in the hague

[dunky3940]

thanks, spreading

[sirshaneyboy]

@sirshaneyboy

Tony Blair's "behaviour"

... sorry

[ukpropaganda]

Blair : crook.

Plain and simple.

[DuffMan790]

Looks like it...Daily Mail today (20/3/10) "The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments said that although the former prime minister still has a public role as the West's Middle East envoy, it could no longer scrutinise the way he is cashing in on his contacts in the region because he has been out of office for more than 2 years". The guys a crook, everyone knows yet nothing is done...this is the world as it is & will always be until the majority wake up.