Blair Shows Abramhoff how to "put it on"
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:15 am
Scotland Yard investigation bad blow to Blair
Wednesday, 22 March , 2006, 08:52
London: In a blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair, British police has launched an investigation into alleged sale of honours by ruling Labour after the party published a list of 12 wealthy donors, including NRI entrepreneurs Sir Gulam Noon and Chai Patel.
London’s Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday night that its Specialist Crime Department was looking into three complaints submitted to it under a 1925 law on abuses of nominations for peerages and other honours.
According to The Independent daily, two of the complaints were made by the Scottish National Party. The Party lawmaker Angus MacNeil, who made a formal complaint welcomed the probe.
Blair denies wrongdoing and argues he did not make the nominations in exchange for the loans.
Yesterday, NRI curry tycoon Sir Noon, who lent a loan of 250,000 pounds to the party, announced that he was asking for his nomination for a seat in the House of Lords to be withdrawn.
His announcement came as another Indian-origin donor, Patel, said there were no strings attached to the loan and at no point did he discuss about anything in return.
The probe was announced hours after the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) vowed to take back control of party funding and to oversee all future financing following the loans for peerages controversy.
Wednesday, 22 March , 2006, 08:52
London: In a blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair, British police has launched an investigation into alleged sale of honours by ruling Labour after the party published a list of 12 wealthy donors, including NRI entrepreneurs Sir Gulam Noon and Chai Patel.
London’s Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday night that its Specialist Crime Department was looking into three complaints submitted to it under a 1925 law on abuses of nominations for peerages and other honours.
According to The Independent daily, two of the complaints were made by the Scottish National Party. The Party lawmaker Angus MacNeil, who made a formal complaint welcomed the probe.
Blair denies wrongdoing and argues he did not make the nominations in exchange for the loans.
Yesterday, NRI curry tycoon Sir Noon, who lent a loan of 250,000 pounds to the party, announced that he was asking for his nomination for a seat in the House of Lords to be withdrawn.
His announcement came as another Indian-origin donor, Patel, said there were no strings attached to the loan and at no point did he discuss about anything in return.
The probe was announced hours after the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) vowed to take back control of party funding and to oversee all future financing following the loans for peerages controversy.