Cash-for-questions affair
1990s UK political scandal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The "cash-for-questions affair" was a political scandal of the 1990s in the United Kingdom.
It began in October 1994 when The Guardian newspaper alleged that London's most successful parliamentary lobbyist,[1] Ian Greer of Ian Greer Associates, had bribed two Conservative Members of Parliament to ask parliamentary questions and perform other tasks on behalf of the Egyptian owner of Harrods department store, Mohamed Al-Fayed.[2]