yep, that's Frank Timis, close associate of Tony Sage.
From Gerard Ryle's blog on Firepower (Gerard is the highly respected Australian journalist who broke the Firepower story, and then authored "Firepower: The most spectacular fraud in Australian history") - an entry on Frank Timis and Lord Peter Truscott:
Time to juice it up Sunday, March 15th, 2009 One of the more interesting characters caught up in the Firepower saga is Frank Timis, a person twice convicted of heroin offences in Australia who later went on to found a series of rather successful companies around the world. Tim Johnston is said to be working for him in London. They are supposed to be starting the new Firepower – a company called Green Power Corporation, that will incorporate the same products and logos as Firepower. And all the investors in Firepower will be most pleased because they will finally get a return. Yeah, right!
Timis belongs to a loose group of individuals and businessmen around the world, one of whom recently made news in Britain. It is the Labour peer, Lord Truscott. Yep, that’s him in the video allegedly prepared to accept cash to change laws. The former Labour government minister – once a special envoy for Tony Blair – is now a director of oil and mining companies controlled by Timis. Truscott is a director of two Timis ventures. One, African Minerals, is active in Sierra Leone, the world’s biggest source of blood diamonds (African Minerals was formerly called the Sierra Leone Diamond Company). In September 2008 the Sunday Times reported that Timis was facing the prospect of a court case over disputed mineral rights. The other company, Eastern Petroleum, is involved in oil prospecting in the former Soviet Union. Truscott is also a director of Gulf Keystone Petroleum, a company involved in oil exploration in northern Iraq, run by Bush/Cheney campaign contributor Todd Kozel. In addition, Truscott works for Gavin Anderson, a PR firm with strong links to the government of Russia. [end]
Note: Truscott has since resigned from the board of African Minerals after this blog entry above was made.
However.... Although the Eastern Petroleum website is currently being updated, still accessible on the site is the 'About us' section with director bios - and according to the website, "Lord" Peter Truscott is still a director of Eastern Petroleum.
Lord Truscott of St James's - Non-Executive Director
Lord Truscott is a Labour peer. He is a member of the House of Lords European Union Committee, Sub Committee C (Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy) and a former departmental liaison peer to the Ministry of Defence. Between 2006 and 2007, Lord Truscott was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy at the Department of Trade and Industry and the DTI Government Spokesperson in the House of Lords. He represented Hertfordshire in the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999, and was Labour's Foreign Affairs and Defence spokesperson, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Vice-President of the Security Sub Committee.
A renowned expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union, Lord Truscott was a member of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with the Russian Federation from 1994-1999, and has written scores of articles and three books on modern Russia, including the internationally acclaimed biography of Vladimir Putin (Putin's Progess). Over recent years, he has advised
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There is some more to add to that bio. Truscott has the distinction of being the first peer suspended from the House of Lords since 1642. Truscott was found guilty earlier this year by the Lords Privilege Committee of using his power and influence in Parliament to try to change policy, in return for cash. He was at the centre of this disgraceful saga in the UK which saw 3 other peers suspended as well - the "Peer for hire" scandal.
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