An auctioned game of tennis with Cameron and Johnson was won by Chernukhin with a £160,000 bid

The wife of one of Vladimir Putin’s former ministers, who successfully bid £160,000 at a Tory fundraiser to play tennis with David Cameron and Boris Johnson, has made a further donation to the party.

Lubov Chernukhin, who is married to a former Russian deputy finance minister, gave £161,600 to the Conservative Party, according to the Electoral Commission’s latest quarterly returns.

The Tories have previously insisted that Chernukhin, now a British citizen, is not a “Putin crony”. They said her husband, Vladimir, fell out with the president after being dismissed from his job in charge of a state-run bank.

Electoral Commission records show Chernukhin, a banker, was declared an “impermissible donor” in 2012 when she attempted to give £10,000 to the Tories.

Since then, however, she