Prince Andrew introduced to ‘fraudster’ who ‘gave him £1 million’ by convicted Libyan gun smuggler

PRINCE Andrew was launched to an alleged fraudster who gave him £1 million by a convicted Libyan gun runner, it was claimed.

The Duke of York and his former spouse Sarah Ferguson obtained “suspicious” funds on the orders of Selman Turk, a former Goldman Sachs banker, as a part of a £40m worldwide fraud, it’s alleged.

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Tarek Kaituni was convicted in 2005 of smuggling a sub-machinegun into France.

He was invited to Princess Beatrice’s twenty first birthday celebration in Spain in August 2009, the place he additionally gave her a diamond pendant price £18,000, and attended the marriage of Princess Eugenie in 2018.

Kaituni, who has US citizenship, would later brag of his affect over the Duke of York, and helped arrange secret conferences with Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Mr Turk was reportedly launched to Prince Andrew by Tarek Kaituni at a birthday celebration at Windsor Citadel within the early summer time of 2019, the Telegraph experiences.

A number of months earlier Mr Turk and Kaituni had been launched by mutual associates.

Mr Turk shared photographs of him and Kaituni inside what’s believed to be Frogmore Home, the royal residence in Windsor Nice Park, throughout a go to in February 2020.

Following the preliminary introduction, Turk and Kaituni held conferences with the Duke in London on not less than two events.

That included at a dinner held for the Duke with potential buyers at Turk condo in South Kensington on December 5, 2019.

A spokesman for the Prince declined to touch upon report.

Andrew is embroiled in a unprecedented Excessive Courtroom case amid claims he was given money by Turk, who accused of swindling a Turkish millionairess out of her £40m fortune.

Courtroom papers say the funds included a £750,000 “present” to the royal from Nebahat Isbilen.

The 76-year-old was allegedly instructed the sum would pay for assist with a passport so she may flee political persecution in Turkey.

An extra £350,000 fee, linked to Mr Turk, was allegedly made to Prince Andrew by means of a 3rd social gathering account.

The Duke has repaid the £750,000 and there’s no suggestion he was social gathering to the alleged fraud.

Mr Turk denies the allegations.

Andrew’s hyperlinks to Libya date again round 20 years, when the Duke visited an arms truthful in Jordan together with his new Equerry Robert Olney.

He was first launched to Kaituni, previously married to glamorous Dutch supermodel Lisa van Goinga, by an unnamed Center Japanese sheikh.

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