GREEN EYE
Panel games
CONTROVERSY continues to rage around the development of what would be Europe’s largest solar farm, on 3,500 acres of land in Oxfordshire, with the beleaguered National Grid now dragged into it.
The Eye has often pointed out the questionable background of those behind the proposed Botley West solar farm, notably Cyprus-resident Yulia Lezhen, widow of a late Russian businessman who was accused of ripping off a Russian bank. Evidence for the funding for the 840MW project is merely the unaudited accounts of a German company through which Lezhen and her partner Peter Gerstmann operate.