Bill Clinton has raised millions of dollars from governments and politicians in the Middle East and Asia, raising fresh concerns about the impartiality of his wife’s role as Secretary of State.

The US company Blackwater, whose fate as a provider of private security guards to the US State Department in Iraq is likely to be decided by Hillary Clinton next year, also gave her husband’s foundation up to $25,000 (£16.000), according to a list of 205,000 donors that the former President released yesterday.

Five Blackwater guards were charged with manslaughter last week over the shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians in September 2007.

Mr Clinton has raised at least $46 million from Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments for the William J. Clinton Foundation, which was created to fund his presidential library and fight poverty and disease worldwide. The kingdom gave between $10 million and $25 million. Other governments on the list include Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Italy and Jamaica.

After years of refusing to divulge his donors — he is not legally obliged to do so — Mr Clinton was forced to release the list to assuage concerns about conflict of interests between his international philanthropic fundraising efforts and the worldwide diplomatic role of his wife.

Yet the list, particularly the foreign governments and the large sums given by Saudi Arabia, will inevitably play a role at her Senate confirmation hearings next year. The list did not give exact donations — only ranges of giving — and ran to nearly 3,000 pages.

“I want to personally express my deepest appreciation to our many contributors, who remain steadfast partners in our work to impact the lives of so many around the world in measurable and meaningful ways,” Mr Clinton said.

The release of the list underscored the ties between the Clintons and Indian politicians and business moguls at a time when the US relationship and influence with Pakistan will be a central element of foreign policy for Barack Obama.

Mr Clinton received donations ranging between $1 million and $5 million from Amar Singh, an Indian politician; a donation in the same range from a wind turbine supplier owned by Tulsi R. Tanti, one of the wealthiest Indian businessmen, and between $500,000 and $1 million from the Confederation of Indian Industry. Donors gave at least $492 million from the inception of the foundation in 1997 to the end of last year.

Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining executive, who either personally or through his company donated up to $30 million, flew Mr Clinton to Kazakhstan on his private jet in 2005. Mr Giustra won a mining contract in Kazakhstan and later made donations to the foundation.

One of the two biggest donors was the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation in London.

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