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20/03/2015
UKIP MEP Fraud Allegation 'Couldn't Look Worse' - Farage
Nigel Farage has said that fraud allegations made against UKIP MEP Janice Atkinson, "couldn't look worse".
The South East MEP and local election candidate has been suspended from the party following the publication of an investigation by The Sun newspaper into an alleged expenses claim.
Speaking to the BBC after it was revealed Kent Police had launched a fraud investigation, Mr Farage said: "It looks very bad – it couldn't look worse and I'm astonished by it."
The Sun newspaper claims it has a secret recording of Ms Atkinson's chief of staff, Christine Hewitt, asking a restaurant manager in Margate, Kent, for an invoice for a much higher sum than the original bill.
(MH/JP)
The South East MEP and local election candidate has been suspended from the party following the publication of an investigation by The Sun newspaper into an alleged expenses claim.
Speaking to the BBC after it was revealed Kent Police had launched a fraud investigation, Mr Farage said: "It looks very bad – it couldn't look worse and I'm astonished by it."
The Sun newspaper claims it has a secret recording of Ms Atkinson's chief of staff, Christine Hewitt, asking a restaurant manager in Margate, Kent, for an invoice for a much higher sum than the original bill.
(MH/JP)
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