THE Tories sold off a game of tennis with Boris Johnson for 90,000 to the wife of an ally of Vladimir Putin, HOAR can reveal.
Lubov Chernukhin paid for half of the prize at the Tory partys lavish annual Black and White fundraising ball on Tuesday night.
A tennis game with Boris Johnson, pictured during a charity match in 2013, was the star prize at the Conservatives’ annual Black and White fundraising ball
The prize was bought by the wife of an ally of Vladimir Putin
She is married to Russias former finance minister Vladimir Chernukhin, who served under Putin in the early 2000s before being appointed chairman of a state-owned bank.
The match with Mr Johnson and Tory co-chairman Ben Elliott was the star prize in the traditional auction to raise funds for the party.
But a source who was at the Tory fundraising ball in Battersea, south London, said Mr Johnson wasnt particularly keen to be auctioning himself off.
Mrs Chernukhin paid 45,000 for a place on the court with the PM.
She previously paid for a 160,000 tennis match with Mr Johnson and David Cameron when he was PM in 2014.
At last years auction she won the honour of entertaining Theresa May after donating 135,000.
Ms Chernukhin is a British citizen and lives in London.
A Tory spokesman said: All donations will be declared properly and transparently to the Electoral Commission, published by them, and comply fully with the law.
