Strange that Tessa Jowell got away with being involved with dodging paying tax and laundering money and Geoffrey Robinson got away being involved with a multimillion pound trust.
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In a statement in 2009 after her husband was found guilty of accepting the bribe, Dame Tessa said: ‘This is a terrible blow to David and, although we are separated, I have never doubted his innocence.’
She was dragged into her husband’s controversial financial affairs in 2006 when it emerged that she had signed papers for a loan secured on their London home – which was subsequently paid off with the help of the alleged bribe.
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Mr Robinson - a former chief executive of Jaguar Cars - is reported in the Independent on Sunday to be the beneficiary of an offshore trust with assets of more than £12m.
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