{"id":77956,"date":"2018-05-15T05:46:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T05:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/uk-watchdog-fines-leave-eu-for-breaking-spending-rules-4\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T05:46:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T05:46:12","slug":"uk-watchdog-fines-leave-eu-for-breaking-spending-rules-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/uk-watchdog-fines-leave-eu-for-breaking-spending-rules-4\/","title":{"rendered":"UK watchdog fines Leave.EU for breaking spending rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. Electoral Commission today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElectoralCommUK\/status\/994819868712161281\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">fined<\/a> campaign group Leave.EU for breaking electoral spending rules.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-Brexit campaign group was fined \u00a370,000 for multiple breaches of electoral law during the 2016 Brexit referendum, including exceeding its spending limit and not accurately declaring its funding and spending.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission said it suspects criminal offenses may have been committed and has referred Leave.EU campaign chief Liz Bilney to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Arron Banks, the co-founder of Leave.EU, portrayed the fine as politically motivated and insisted the group would challenge the decision in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire Commission is composed of \u2026 all sorts of people who all believe in Remain,\u201d Banks told BBC Radio 4. \u201cWe wont let matters rest here \u2026 We will be robustly defending our position in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission said it found no evidence that Cambridge Analytica \u2014 the data mining firm at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/cambridge-analytica-facebook-data-brittney-kaiser-privacy\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">center of a global outrage<\/a> over misuse of private Facebook data \u2014 performed paid work or gave donations to Leave.EU during the 10-week campaign period leading up to the vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not find evidence that [Leave.EU] received services during that period of time,\u201d Claire Bassett, chief executive of the Electoral Commission, told BBC Radio 4.<\/p>\n<p>Claims the fine is politically motivated are unfounded, according to Bassett: \u201cMatters about whether a referendum needs to be called or should be called are very important matters, but they are matters for the parliament, not us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain confident our findings are accurate based on the information that weve seen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/brexit-uk-watchdog-fines-leave-eu-for-breaking-spending-rules\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> [contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/> <\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/&gt;Politico&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/h5&gt;_&lt;\/p&gt;[contfnewc]_[contfnewc]_&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. Electoral Commission today fined campaign group Lea..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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