Over the last year Arron Banks has been forced repeatedly to change his story about his relationship with Russia, the number of meetings he had with Kremlin representatives and oligarchs, and the lucrative deals he was offered in the run up to the Brexit referendum. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

But this programme has seen new documents which show that Arron Banks and his associates did try to cut a lucrative multi-billion dollar Russian gold deal dangled by a close associate of President Putin in the Russian embassy.

Mr Banks has repeatedly denied chasing any business deals whatsoever.

But we can reveal tonight the apparent lengths the Russians went to to cultivate the "bad boy of Brexit" and the efforts he made to seal a lucrative gold deal.

The source of his original Brexit donation is now the subject of an extensive National Crime Agency investigation.

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