- Ministers fought yesterday to free themselves
from the Enron scandal after fresh revelations about the collapsed firm.
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- Details emerged of five meetings between
bosses and Government advisers amid claims that Ministers had tried to
hide the contacts.
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- Downing Street failed to include the
meetings in a "thorough" list of Ministerial contact last week.
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- In 1998 Enron chiefs pleaded with the
PM's industrial policy adviser Geoffrey Norris despite an earlier refusal
to change energy policy. Senior staff met Chancellor Gordon Brown's chief
economic adviser Ed Balls and Paymaster General Geoffrey Robinson met Europe
director David Lewis. They also met Europe Minister Keith Vaz and Welsh
Office Minister Peter Hain in 1999.
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- Labour party chairman Charles Clarke
told BBC1's Breakfast With Frost: "Do I believe there was any impropriety?
I certainly do not." Lord Wakeham could face ruin after being named
in a writ by Enron employees fighting to recover cash lost from retirement
funds. He could be liable for the firm's £55billion debt.
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- Some Enron executives could face criminal
charges after a report showed they raked in millions of dollars they should
not have received while the company inflated profits.
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- A Palace spokesman said Prince Charles,
whose Prince's Trust charity accepted £1million from Enron, paid
a "routine" visit to the Texas home of chairman Ken Lay as a
donor.
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