[Sunday Times-UK] David Leppard - A secret slush fund set up by BAE Systems, Britain's biggest defense contractor, was used to pay tens of thousands of pounds to two British actresses while they befriended a senior Saudi prince and his entourage. Confidential documents reveal that money from the £60m fund went on the mortgages and rent, credit card bills and council tax of Anouska Bolton-Lee and Karajan Mallinder. It even paid for language lessons. At the time of the payments, Bolton-Lee and Mallinder regularly attended parties at the Carlton Tower hotel in London hosted by the prince who, as head of the Royal Saudi Air Force, was responsible for the purchase of 150 Hawk and Tornado jets from BAE.
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