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SHREWSBURY Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski is now moonlighting with a controversial New York-based mining investment firm.
Kawczynski will get £72,000 a year to work for The Electrum Group — almost as much as the £76,000 a year he gets to represent the people of Shrewsbury.
Kawczynski says in the register of MPs’ interests that in February he became a “consultant providing general advice” to Electrum Group, based on Madison Avenue, New York.
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