By Molly Claire Goddard
9:12am PST, Jan 15, 2026
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According to a
BBC investigation, oligarch
Timur Kulibayev paid Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor three times over the asking price for the $20 million Sunninghill Park estate in Berkshire. Kulibayev reportedly used a loan from Enviro Pacific Investments, which allegedly received funds from a bribery scheme in 2007.
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Timur Kulibayev maintains that he never engaged in bribery or corruption and that the money was clean. However, a businessman connected to Enviro Pacific Investments pleaded guilty to bribing Kulibayev.
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According to money-laundering expert and director of the Center for Finance and Security, Tom Keatinge, the transaction between Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Timur Kulibayev had "blatant red flags," and there should have been measures to ensure the funds weren't "helping to launder the proceeds of corruption."
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor spoke about the controversial sale in 2009. "It's not my business, the second the price is paid. If that is the offer, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth and suggest they have overpaid me," he told the
Daily Telegraph via the
BBC.
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The latest scandal comes after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his titles and evicted from Royal Lodge over his ties to
Jeffrey Epstein. The former Duke of York is reportedly moving to a smaller home on
King Charles III's Sandringham estate. However, Andrew might relocate to the Middle East. "He doesn't like the sound of being on the Sandringham estate. I think he wants to go somewhere where he can just get away from everything," royal biographer
Robert Jobson told
People. "I just can't see him being on an isolated farm in Sandringham."
