Via The Guardian:
Share:David Cameron yesterday expelled the Conservative party’s former chief whip in the European parliament after the Strasbourg authorities ruled that he had breached its rules and demanded that he pay back just over £500,000.
Den Dover, who resigned as chief whip in June over claims that he had siphoned off £758,000 of public money to family members through a company providing secretarial services over nine years, will face a fraud investigation by the EU’s anti-fraud body, Olaf. This has the power to ask police in Britain to carry out searches.
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When I first saw this I thought you said Ben Dover!
About bloody time. Mr Dover received a polite but firmly worded letter on my blog today, suffice to say that I’m delighted to see him booted out.
http://www.lettersfromatory.com
Mr Dover received a polite but firmly worded letter on my blog this morning, suffice to say that I’m delighted to see him booted out for his disgraceful behaviour.
http://www.lettersfromatory.com
£758’000!
I take it the gigantic Scrooge McDuck-esque money pit he was caught swimming in every night gave him away?
And where are the calls for a fraud investigation? Legal action?
Sorry, I meant to say in the UK. UK justice rather than EU.
It appears that ex-LibDem MEP Saj Karim now moves to no. 2 on the Tories NW list for next year’s Euro elections.
Any relation to Ben ?
I think I’m right that the amount he has to repay is in euros. Assuming he doesn’t have hundreds of thousands stashed away in a continental bank account, it’s one reason to celebrate the weak pound.