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“Thither Bibi repaired for a while, and it may or may not be a coincidence but I am told that later, when they were doing a regular sweep for bugs, they found a listening device in the thunderbox,” Johnson writes as he recalls a meeting.

The report traces a trend of private equity firms swooping in as large oil and gas firms seek to shed older and dirtier assets and the bigger banks increasingly regard them as risky investments. Thanks to limited disclosure rules, regulatory loopholes and complex corporate structures, some of the dirtiest assets have come to be owned by relatively obscure investment outfits, the report says.

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A spokesperson for Palestine Action said the manifestations of independence were contradicted within the same sentences in which they were made.

"What's going on behind closed doors demonstrates clear evidence of collusion between government, a foreign private arms manufacturer, the CPS, the Attorney General's Office and the police," they said. "This clear abuse of power shows how the state is prioritising the interests of Elbit Systems over the rights and freedoms of its own citizens."

Documents previously revealed through FoI requests suggested Israeli embassy officials in London attempted to get the Attorney General's Office to intervene in UK court cases relating to the prosecution of protesters.