Labour accepted £40k donations from criminal it kicked out of party
The Labor Party said that the party has returned more than 40,000 £ donated by a convicted criminal already fired as a member.
The donations came from 55-year-old businessman Abdul Sattar, who was convicted of real physical damage in 2022 and was later dismissed as Sattar that year.
The money contains a figure just below the threshold to be announced to the Election Commission Election Observer, including £ 10,300 given to the Central Party last June.
Reverends reveal questions about Labour’s procedures to accept political donations, following the reports that Elon Musk plans to give to the reform of Nigel Farage’s reform party earlier this year.
In the last election manifesto, Sir Keir Starmer’s party promised to “protect democracy by strengthening the rules around donations to political parties”.
In addition to the money given to the party, Mr. Mohammod donated £ 15,000 by Mohammod to support the re -election of Portsmouth Deputy Portsmouth Deputy Minister of Early Education. The party said he wasn’t aware of Mr. Morgan’s conviction.
The local party must have declared them, but the worker accused a “administrative mistake” he said he had been corrected.
Mr. Mohammod also gave Southampton deputy Satvir Kaur £ 10,000 and another Portsmouth Deputy Martin 5,000 to Martin. Both announced the money in parliamentary interest records.
Sunday Times, who first reported the donations, said that when Mr. Morgan and his local party came into contact with only one correspondent Mr. Mohammod, he said.
When asked about his conviction this week, Mr. Mohammod told the newspaper that he was present during a violent conflict after his son’s bike was stolen. He said he was trying to prevent a “bad situation, but that his sons had a fight. He refused to attack the victim personally.
The donation of £ 10,300 to the party was below the limit of £ 11.180, which was determined by the Election Commission, that is, it did not have to be declared.
The Commission said in a statement: “Donations that are late by the parties and accounting units are handled in line with our execution policy. We can confirm that we are thinking about this issue right now.”
Labour said that Morgan’s mass funding page will support other campaigns in Portsmouth, and that he could not be accepted as a direct donation and that he did not need to be declared in the registry of interest.
It is understood that the donations will be submitted to the Election Commission on the next three -month return of the party. A spokesman said: “These donations were made to the Portsmouth Labor Party. Since then, he took action to return them.”
In addition, Mrs Kaur returned his donation last year, Martin was in the process of doing so, while the national party made contact by Sunday Times on Thursday.
