Police make their first arrest in City Hall funding scandal

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Police make their first arrest in City Hall funding scandal

By Mark Pack | Tue 11th March 2008 - 11:11 pm

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Previously in the Ken Livingstone no-one has done anything wrong, honest guv, it’s all been made up by horrible journalists saga: Lee Jasper, one of London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s top aides, was forced to quit after he failed to declare his links with the recipient of a grant from City Hall.

And now: the police have arrested on suspicion of money laundering Greg Nowell. He ran the Green Badge Taxi School, one of the schemes which received funding from the London Development Agency and which has been under fire over allegations that it didn’t actually carry out the work it was paid for. Lee Jasper was heavily involved in the decision to hand over the funds.

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