Update 25 October 2011 - International Resources Group (IRG), a Washington based company owned by L-3 Communications, have asked us to make clear that they have not funded Pargav and we accept this. On 25 October, our apology for this error was published in the Clarifications and Corrections Column.



Three of the six donors who funded Adam Werritty's jetset lifestyle were prominent pro-Israel business figures.

Gus O'Donnell's report into the Liam Fox affair identified two previously unknown funders of Pargav, the company which paid more than £140,000 towards Werritty's first class flights and five star hotels.

One of these was Mick "the miner" Davis, the boss of the FTSE 100-registered mining company Xstrata and a leading figure in the UK Jewish community.

It has previously emerged that two of the donors to Pargav were financier Michael Lewis and the real estate tycoon Poju Zabludowicz, both linked to the British Israel Communications and Research Centre (Bicom), the UK's main pro-Israel lobby group.

Davis, 52, is chairman of United Jewish Israel Appeal, a British charity which splits its contributions between charitable work in the UK and Israel. He collects one of the biggest pay cheques in the FTSE 100 and was paid £21.2m last year.

Davis, Lewis and Zabludowicz are all big donors to the Tory party. Davis gave £150,000 to Conservative party central office over the last 21 months according to Electoral Commission records. He also gave £7,500 to the office of the education secretary Michael Gove in August.

In June, Davis was among a delegation that included Zabludowicz, the chairman of Bicom, which met the foreign secretary William Hague to discuss the impact of the Arab spring on Israel. Last year Davis was at the centre of a fierce controversy within the UK Jewish community after he made highly critical remarks about the Israeli government.

Lee Petar, a boss of Tetra Strategy, the lobbying firm that introduced a Dubai defence contractor to Werritty, was previously communications chief for Bicom.

Another company called IRG was named by O'Donell as a donor to Pargav. A Washington-based company that describes itself as an international professional services firm that helps governments, also called IRG, last night said that it was not the company involved.

O'Donnell reported that Werritty identified the other funders of Pargav as G3, an international investigation company run by former MI6 employees, and the private equity tycoon John Moulton, who owns Reader's Digest. O'Donnell said Werritty told him Pargav was "a not-for-profit organisation which has supported his work in the Middle East.

O'Donnell said: "Dr Fox facilitated an introduction between Mr Werritty and a donor. The links between Dr Fox and Mr Werritty mean donations given to Mr Werritty could at least be seen as giving rise to the perception of a conflict of interest."

Additional reporting by Rajeev Syal and Daniel Bond