Ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele charged £130,000 for Trump ‘dirty dossier’ and ‘sexed it up to please the people paying him’
Intelligence source claims explosive 35-page report alleging the US President-elect had been involved in 'perverted sexual practices' has not been backed up by anyone
FORMER MI6 spy Chris Steele charged £130,000 for his “sexed up’’ Donald Trump dossier, a pal told The Sun last night.
It was said to have happened while Trump, 70, was in Moscow at the 2013 Miss Universe contest.
But an intelligence source who knows Steele told The Sun: “Chris charged £130,000 for the report but in my opinion he sexed it up to please the people paying him.
“If he is going to get that sort of money he is not going to tell his paymasters that the subject of their inquiry is Mother Teresa is he?’’
The source added: “In essence what he wrote is just gossip and not backed up by anyone.’’
Company records show Steele’s business intelligence firm Orbit rec-orded profits of more than £620,000 last year — with the Trump dossier accounting for a fifth of its work.
Cambridge Uni graduate Steele, 52, is said to have been paid by Trump’s Republican enemies and defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton’s supporters to dig dirt on the billionaire property developer.
Steele fled his home in Farnham, Surrey, after it emerged he had compiled the dossier — which Mr Trump called “fake news”.
He is thought to be in a safe house with his new wife and three children and in fear for his life.
Russian president Vladimir Putin was alleged to have authorised the assassination.
Intelligence expert Nigel West said: “There is a lack of intellectual rigour in the report and as such its validity is impossible to know.
“It is possible he was fed false information by the Russians.”
He added: “I think he is right to be in hiding. He has a dislike of Putin and Chris was in charge of looking after Litvinenko — and we know what happened to him.’’
Prime Minister Theresa May was told about the dossier last month, it has been revealed.
Mrs May moved to distance the Government from the scandal by pointing out that Steele "not worked for the UK government for years."