Lord Truscott - friends in low places

Much in demand business advisor, cheap crook , fixer, cheat, liar and fellow Lord Truscott was appointed Non-Executive Director African Minerals Ltd., ( AKA Sierra Leone Diamond Co) on 8th April 2008. The shares stood at 154p that day, today they are 27p) See Interim report 2008 first-half pretax loss widened to US$11.36 million from US$8 million, while revenue fell to US$2.21 million from US$7.49 million.

Timis Diamond Corporation Limited (via wholly owned by CA Fiduciary Services Limited as sole trustee of the Timis Trust) own 22.06% of the company.

Those further interested in ex heroin dealer Mr Frank Timis and his exciting and varied international career can usefully look at his Wiki entry and read all about Regal Petroleum AIM listed company with no royals aboard and very little petrol.

Just as well Lord Truscott has something to fall back on as the Guradian report that smart meter manufactureres the highly respectable and venerable Lantis+Gyr had a chat last Sunday with him. "After a difficult conversation he resigned ... as a consultant."

The shit stirring Chris Huhne has also written to Sir Paul Stephenson, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, asking for an investigation into allegations of bribery offences committed by Lord Taylor of Blackburn and Lord Truscott of St James’s.


The law (says Chris) must apply to everybody regardless of whether they are within the political system or outside it, and this is a particularly crucial allegation as it touches on the honesty and integrity of the parliamentary process.

Any news of the return of the donation to the Lib Dems of £2.4 Mn. from Michael Brown, 42, of Templewood Avenue, Hampstead, to help fund their 2005 election campaign , who was alleged to have stolen a total of $11,348,003 (£7,092,501) from Charles Martin Edwards and three of transferring criminal property in the same overall amount.