Boris Johnson was paid £240,000 after Maduro meeting, invoice shows

<p>Johnson’s office sent invoice to hedge fund manager, which was paid, weeks after meeting Venezuelan leader last year</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/08/revealed-how-boris-johnson-traded-pm-contacts-for-global-business-deals">Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals</a></p></li></ul><p>From a private jet somewhere over the Caribbean Sea in February last year, Boris Johnson called his old political adversary David Cameron, then the foreign secretary, to notify him of a visit.</p><p>Johnson had taken a day out from a family holiday in the Dominican Republic for an unlikely meeting with the leftwing president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, a man whom Johnson, when in office, had likened to a “dictator of an evil regime”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/08/boris-johnson-nicolas-maduro-meeting-invoice">Continue reading...</a>