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Michael Mates was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Petersfield / East Hampshire from 1974 to 2010.
Michael Mates was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School, Blundell’s School and King’s College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar.
He served for twenty years in the British Army, leaving in 1974 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with the 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards.
Mates served as the Chairman of the Defence (1987–1992) and Northern Ireland (2001–2005) select committees and chaired the All-PartyAnglo-Irish Parliamentary Group.

Lord McAlpine persuaded Asil Nadir to give a large sum of money to the UK Conservative Party.
Cyprus Expat | Blog: Asil Nadir’s Company Used For Selling weapons to Iraq…
2. The Turkish newspaper reported that “an experienced intelligence specialist, who worked for 20 years with the CIA”, told the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet that a CIA document shows that the British ‘deep state’ used Nadir’s company for an illegal weapon’s sale.
CIA document shows deep British state involved in secret arms sale …
“The documents which contain the details of USA-UK cooperation, along with the cover for the secret weapon sale’s network, expose that the ‘deep state’ used a series of dirty paths, including murder.
“The documents prove that Unipac, a company based in occupied Famagusta and which is connected to Nadir’s Polly Peck, was among a set of companies used for selling guns to Iraq.
“According to the intelligence specialist, Mark Thatcher, son of ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, received a 12 million fortune from a weapons sale and Nadir’s company Polly Peck tried to cover it.
“This pushed the button for the company’s collapse under the British Serious Fraud Office.”
Cyprus Expat | Blog: Asil Nadir’s Company Used For Selling weapons to Iraq.
3. Asil Nadir ran an international fruit, shipping and leisure conglomerate, called Polly Peck.
Elizabeth Forsyth was Nadir’s personal banker.
‘My father Thomas McAlpine of the Scottish McAlpine construction family always treated me as if I was an adult,’ she says.
The £29m riddle: Why DID Asil Nadir come back?
“It was a raid on Miss Forsyth’s company, South Audley Management (set up to manage Nadir’s personal matters), by the Serious Fraud Office in September 1990 that triggered the collapse of Polly Peck International…
“The sudden implosion of the international fruit, shipping and leisure conglomerate left 23,000 shareholders with worthless stock…
“Nadir later fled by private jet to his home in Northern Cyprus where he remained until two years ago.”
Miss Forsyth’s conviction for handling stolen cash was overturned on appeal
The £29m riddle: Why DID Asil Nadir come back?

4. Angus James Wilson was the co-founder of Scallywag Magazine, together with his half brother Simon Regan.
Angus told Simon “that he had been supplied with compromising pictures of ….”
Almost immediately afterwords, Angus died in a car crash in Cyprus (September 1996.)
Someone “took all Angus’s possessions into his own custody, presumably with the photographs.”
Angus James Wilson died in 1996 and Simon Regan died around 2000.
justice denied: death of scallywag co founder angus james wilson …
5. Anonymous comments:
“I understand MI6 used British companies to get around the embargo; many were collapsed to take the fall, leaving a lot of disgruntled businessmen like Gerald Reavney James, Astra.
“Scallywag (Wilson, Davis) had compromising photos of Y, which they were selling to Nadir.
“Giovanni di Stefano is representing Nadir: he has refused to withdraw allegations re X.
“X was somehow connected to the SA nuclear matter.
“No wonder there was no libel claim re the Scallywag article.”
Mafia?
Reportedly, the CIA document, which has not yet been made public, implicates “MI6 agent Stephan Kock” and contains the statement that the arrest of Polly Peck CEO Asil Nadir was arranged through the British Serious Fraud Office.
CIA document shows deep British state involved in secret arms sale …
“The CIA document also gives coverage to the suspicious death of experienced journalist Jonathan Moyle in Chile in the wake of the surfacing of allegations concerning Matrix Churchill, Astra and CIA connected Chilean company Allivane regarding the arms sale to Iraq.