Gabriel Pogrund

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269 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Newscast · Who Is The Fraudster Who Paid For Farage’s Security? · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

He was actually talking to federal agents who were doing an undercover sting operation into dark web money laundering.

That's what happens.

He goes to jail.

He spends time in a US federal prison.

And there is obviously a long version of this, but the short one is that throughout what happens next, the years of his life that follow his release in 2018, he remains at Nigel Farage's right hand, all the while moving to Montenegro, where he becomes intimately involved in his two passions, crypto and gambling.

Firstly, I anticipate your amazing producers may sound paper this down.

If they don't, then your listeners know they're great people.

I want to say I did the story alongside my colleagues, Emmanuel Medeiros, Felicia Menges and George Greenwood at the Sunday Times Insight team.

Number one.

Number two, on the rules.

So essentially, the driving purpose of the rules is to uphold democracy by maintaining transparency about any financial interests received by an MP, which a reasonable person might think.

could have an effect on the words or actions of an MP.

Obviously, MPs would always say, oh, no, it had no impact on me that I received a bar of gold from a person... Yeah, but there is wiggle room, isn't there?

Yeah, well, that's... Forgive me, I was just outlining what they're overall designed to do, but the small print that matters here is that an MP has to declare, upon their election, any interest in the preceding 12 months, and it's any...

uh interest that is in any way connected to their political activities that is to say that it's not purely personal i.e a box of chocolates from uh wife to husband uh from husband to wife wife to husband on valentine's day or a gift from one's grandparent if it is in any way connected to your public and political role then

and it exceeds £300 in value, you are meant to declare it.

But you are right.

There's plenty of riddle room, not least because all these matters lie in the hands of the Standards Commissioner and ultimately Parliament.

There's no common law.

There's no penal code.

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