{"id":138422,"date":"2026-01-18T15:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=138422"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:41:19","slug":"taxpayers-paid-to-send-mod-official-to-work-for-elite-bank-rothschild-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/taxpayers-paid-to-send-mod-official-to-work-for-elite-bank-rothschild-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayers paid to send MoD official to work for elite bank Rothschild &#038; Co"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p data-block-key=\"wjcat\">Taxpayers paid for a Ministry of Defence official to spend almost a year working for an elite investment bank that\u2019s seeking to increase the role of private finance in military budgets, openDemocracy can reveal.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"71dng\">The staffer was seconded to Rothschild &amp; Co in February last year and recalled to the MoD on 5 January 2026 \u2013 the same day we contacted the government to ask about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/dark-money-investigations\/ministry-of-defence-official-seconded-rothschild-bank-private-finance-military\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at openDemocracy<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers paid for a Ministry of Defence official to spend almost a year working for an elite investment bank that\u2019s seeking to increase the role of private finance in military &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":138439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,54,58,5,45],"tags":[77,1303,641,1395,2898,877],"class_list":["post-138422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-society","category-finance-sector","category-government","category-news","category-uk-ireland","tag-banks","tag-financialisation","tag-lobbying","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-ministry-of-defence","tag-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}