"When contacted for comment, Wafic Said said: My wife is an independently wealthy woman who has been a strong supporter of the Conservative party her entire life. He added: I have not made donations to the Conservative party for at least 25 years, and any suggestion otherwise would be clearly untrue and would be a very serious matter for me, as I always respect the law."
"A Conservative party spokesperson said it carried out proper due diligence on the donations and added: We do not comment on purported leaked documents, which may have been obtained or manipulated by hostile states. The files were obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS), a US-registered non-profit that archives leaked and hacked documents. DDoS has said it does not know the provenance of the data."
Leaked files raise doubts that Wafic Said, a Canadian citizen resident in Monaco and therefore ineligible to donate under UK electoral law, is the ultimate source of more than £2.6m declared as donations in his wife Rosemary Said’s name. Over 40 donations across 23 years have been registered in Rosemary Said’s name. A leaked Downing Street log records a political meeting with both Wafic and Rosemary Said, and other logs record Wafic having separate phone calls with Boris Johnson and senior aides. Wafic denies donating in the past 25 years. The Conservative party says it carried out due diligence and declines to comment. The files were obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets.
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