"Geoffrey Cox met fixer in SFO scandal while attorney-general"
"David Tinsley, the private investigator, who was acting unofficially for three members of a British-Iranian family at the heart of the SFO probe, met Mr Cox in 2018. At around that time he was also controversially speaking to Lisa Osofsky, the SFO’s chief, in an attempt to secure the withdrawal of arrest warrants that the agency had issued for his clients.
Mr Cox was the SFO’s superintendent at the time. Mr Cox said he and Mr Tinsley did not discuss the case, into the oil and gas consultancy Unaoil, at the previously undisclosed meeting. But the fact that it happened means Mr Tinsley had access to the highest levels of legal decision-making while representing suspects in a corruption case.
Unaoil was one of the SFO’s most prominent cases and any decision to drop it would have been flagged to Mr Cox at quarterly briefings.
The MP said he did not know who Mr Tinsley was and was not informed at any time about the investigator’s links to the matter. The meeting highlights new detail about contact between the attorney-general’s office and Mr Tinsley at a time when it has refused to engage in a review, initiated by the SFO, of Ms Osofsky’s conduct.
Mr Cox said he met with Mr Tinsley for 20 minutes in the waiting room of his barristers’ chambers on October 18, 2018, after an acquaintance requested that he meet an unnamed contact with links to the US government."
Nothing to see here, move along please.
"David Tinsley, the private investigator, who was acting unofficially for three members of a British-Iranian family at the heart of the SFO probe, met Mr Cox in 2018. At around that time he was also controversially speaking to Lisa Osofsky, the SFO’s chief, in an attempt to secure the withdrawal of arrest warrants that the agency had issued for his clients.
Mr Cox was the SFO’s superintendent at the time. Mr Cox said he and Mr Tinsley did not discuss the case, into the oil and gas consultancy Unaoil, at the previously undisclosed meeting. But the fact that it happened means Mr Tinsley had access to the highest levels of legal decision-making while representing suspects in a corruption case.
Unaoil was one of the SFO’s most prominent cases and any decision to drop it would have been flagged to Mr Cox at quarterly briefings.
The MP said he did not know who Mr Tinsley was and was not informed at any time about the investigator’s links to the matter. The meeting highlights new detail about contact between the attorney-general’s office and Mr Tinsley at a time when it has refused to engage in a review, initiated by the SFO, of Ms Osofsky’s conduct.
Mr Cox said he met with Mr Tinsley for 20 minutes in the waiting room of his barristers’ chambers on October 18, 2018, after an acquaintance requested that he meet an unnamed contact with links to the US government."
Nothing to see here, move along please.
Blimey 
