Beauty Pageant: Pro-Indy Group and Serbian Gangster

beauty pageant: Tory leadership contest is more horror show than beauty pageant It was also revealed that Vitol donated 1 million to Serbian gangster and paramilitary commander eljko Ra natovi, better known as Arkan, who was on Interpol's most wanted list throughout the 70s and 80s for murders and robberies, according to The Independent. Arkan, who was regarded as one of the most powerful criminal kingpins in the Balkans, was indicted by the UN for crimes against humanity. Taylor, who also donated 500,000 to the Better Together campaign in 2013, faced intense criticism during the independence referendum campaign after pro-indy group National Collective revealed his company's history, which involved controversial deals in Iran, Iraq, Serbia and Libya. He was assassinated in a hotel lobby in Belgrade in 2000 before he could face trial. The Daily Telegraph also reported that Vitol had been in talks with HMRC over a tax avoidance bill . The talks were to settle a claim for millions of pounds in taxes its senior staff avoided through an offshore pay scheme . In response to the National Collective criticism, Taylor threatened to sue the organisation, but dropped the charges in the wake of negative press coverage. Vitol also created problems for then-PM David Cameron when they entered into negotiations with a Russian oil company targeted by US sanctions against President Putin worth 2 billion. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.