Billionaire financier Leon Black gave his Russian mistress £2million ($2.5m) to make her eligible for a UK 'golden visa' in the hopes the fashion model would start a new life far away from his home in New York, it has been alleged. Black, the former CEO of private equity firm Apollo Global Management, agreed to transfer millions of pounds to Guzel Ganieva in 2015 after she began to extort him by threatening to make their relationship public, according to court filings. The American introduced Ganieva to senior lawyers in and New York before wiring her enough money to be eligible for the Tier 1 visa, which allowed foreigners to settle in the UK if they invested at least £2million in UK companies.
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