Roger Hollis in 1956 and remaining in that post until his retirement in 1965. After Kim Philby's flight from Beirut to Moscow in 1963, rumours began to circulate that Hollis had alerted him to his impending arrest. Hollis was criticised for not alerting John Profumo, the War Secretary in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, that he might have become entangled with a Soviet spy ring through his friendship with Stephen Ward, and his affair with showgirl Christine Keeler, who was introduced by Ward to Profumo. Soviet Naval Attache Eugene Ivanov was also involved with Keeler at this time, in the early
Alessandro Profumo charge is of creating an illegal tax evasion scheme worth 245 million euro. The scheme, according to the prosecution, was created through an arrangement between Unicredit, Barclays (the British bank) and two other minor companies. The trial is due to start in October 2012. In May 2017 Finmeccanica (Leonardo since 1 January 2017) Board of Directors appointed Alessandro Profumo as new Chief Executive Officer of the Group. In 2017, Alessandro Profumo undertook certain actions (creation of a new organisational unit dedicated to commercial activities, strengthening of the diplomatic network, one structure for communicating to all stakeholders and a new organisational