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Of course....Labour,Tories and Lib Dems have never fiddled expenses and misused allowances have they ?Police probe 'financial irregularities' by UKIP in relation to party funding.
1 April 2014 at 11:03
The Metropolitan Police said they were looking into a series of allegations made against Nigel Farage’s party by former UKIP press officer and parliamentary candidate Jasna Badzak. David Manning, an acting detective superintendent at Scotland Yard, outlined five claims that he intends to investigate in an e-mail sent to Ms Badzak last week. They include financial irregularities “regarding the funding of the party” as well as a number of other allegations made against individuals associated with Ukip.
It is understood that Mr Manning has already interviewed at least one person named in connection with the complaints. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said that no arrests had been made. Mr Farage already faces an official inquiry into allegations that Ukip may have breached parliamentary rules by using taxpayers’ money to fund its political operations.
A former member of the UKIP press office, who is not Ms Badzak, claimed that staff were improperly paid out of funds received by the party through its membership of a political group called Europe of Freedom and Democracy. European Parliament rules state that such funds must not be used to “finance political parties at national and European level.” “I was paid by the EFD group in the European Parliament, even though I worked exclusively for UKIP in the UK,” the whistleblower said. “The money was paid into my bank account directly from the EFD group.”
A Ukip spokesman last night declined to comment on Scotland Yard’s inquiries. The party has previously stated that its MEPs are “careful to observe European parliamentary rules when spending resources on funding the goal of British withdrawal” and that it was “wholly legitimate” for some EFD staff to work out of London.
Source: The Times