LONDON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A former elite British soldier and chief executive at Heritage Oil looked for favors in London to gain traction in the Libyan oil sector, the Guardian reports.
Heritage Chief Executive Tony Buckingham made hefty donations to officials in the conservative Tory party in 2010. The local party chairman at the time, Stephen Crouch, was said to have made sizeable contributions to personnel tied to outside Defense Minister Liam Fox, the Guardian reports.