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One of the biggest recipients of direct farm subsidies in the UK is discreetly controlled by a Malaysian tycoon who acted as a middleman in one of this country’s biggest aid controversies, an Unearthed and Private Eye investigation has revealed.

The South Pickenham Estate Company, which farms some 6,500 acres around South Pickenham Hall, in Norfolk, received £439,739 through the common agricultural policy’s controversial “basic payment scheme” last year, placing it among the UK’s top 50 claimants of basic payments.

Since the company was formed in the early 90s, it has been owned through offshore companies based in the Cayman Islands and latterly Jersey that do not disclose its beneficial owners.

But an Unearthed investigation has found that the company is controlled by the Malaysian businessman Tan Sri Dato’ Seri AP Arumugam.

Tan Sri Arumugam is best known in this country as the man who acted as