{"id":13513,"date":"2017-11-02T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/arron-banks-investigated-over-brexit-campaign-funding\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T09:02:26","slug":"arron-banks-investigated-over-brexit-campaign-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/arron-banks-investigated-over-brexit-campaign-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Arron Banks investigated over Brexit campaign funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. Electoral Commission said Wednesday it had opened an investigation into whether millionaire U.K. Independence Party donor Aaron Banks breached campaign finance rules during the 2016 Brexit referendum.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by the commission, investigators said they would try to determine whether Better for the Country Limited, a company that lists Banks as a director was \u201cthe true source of donations\u201d made to Leave campaigners in its name, \u201cor if it was acting as an agent.\u201d It will also examine whether Banks, who was also Leave.EU chairman, was the \u201ctrue source of loans reported by a referendum campaigner in his name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to the investigation, Banks tweeted: \u201cGosh I\u2019m terrified.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gosh I&#039;m terrified <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t46IBFhfpV\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/t46IBFhfpV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arron Banks (@Arron_banks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arron_banks\/status\/925681829889429504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">November 1, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The investigation takes place following concerns from some MPs about funding for the referendum campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Labor MP Ben Bradshaw <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.digiminster.com\/Commons\/2017-10-19\/debates\/83A9A509-2C9D-4870-AB64-484FD1847097\/BusinessOfTheHouse#contribution-49E9F229-625E-488F-840F-C3BA207C9059\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">asked<\/a> Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom if she could \u201creassure\u201d the country that \u201call the resources spent during the referendum were from permissible sources,\u201d and that, \u201cgiven the widespread public concern about foreign, particularly Russian, interference in western democracies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The commission\u2019s statement on Wednesday also made clear that it would look into whether or not there were violations to the rules set out in the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA) and the European Union Referendum Act 2015 (EURA).<\/p>\n<p>British media reports said Banks, a Bristol-based businessman, contributed around \u00a39m to the Leave cause.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Banks\u2019 was registered as a permitted participant to the referendum but his BFTCL wasn\u2019t, according to the statement, which added that the reported donations from BFTCL during the referendum campaign period amounted to a total of \u00a32,359,842.76.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission started investigating campaign spending of the Leave.EU movement back in April 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/arron-banks-investigated-over-brexit-campaign-funding\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"contfix\">\n<div id=\"contdto\">         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/imagesqtbnANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ-2.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<h4 id=\"contfixlink\">Politico<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. Electoral Commission said Wednesday it had opened a..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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