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「もちろん、そんなことはない」:リフォームを3つの戦線で窮地に追い込んだ潜入取材
原語の動画
英語の原文から翻訳されています。
前回のレポートからの変化
2日後
前回
昼食会、世論調査、500,000ポンドの計画:ファラージ氏の側近を奪った潜入取材当時の未解明点
- 許容されない献金が受け取られた、あるいはファラージ氏が計画を知っていたとの認定はまだない。
注視するとしていた点
- ロンドン警視庁が精査を、側近2人にとどまらない正式な捜査に切り替えるかどうか。
今回
隠しカメラが、世論調査のための米国資金を秘密裏に手配する側近たちを捉えた。ファラージはパブでの話だと主張するが、警察と倫理基準責任者は、以前からの多額の資金をめぐる問題をすでに調べており、党は3つの調査に同時に直面している。
確定したこと
- 潜入取材班は、オーとジュークスが3万2500ポンド分の世論調査費用を米国から秘密裏に支払うことについて話し合う様子を撮影した。
- 2024年5月のコットレルからの寄付をめぐるMetの刑事捜査は、起訴なしで継続中。
- ハーボーンの500万ポンドの贈与をめぐる倫理基準調査は、9月8日までに公表された判断を出していなかった。
誰かが知ることになるのか、誰かに話すつもりなのか?もちろん、そんなことはない。
調査報道が放送されると、リフォームUKの年次党大会を直撃した。47 ファラージは、党は違法な資金を受け取っておらず、寄付も届いていないと述べ、発言は「パブでの軽率な話」で、許可されていない自慢話にすぎず「事実ではなかった」と退けた。また、「聞いていなかった」、自分はコンプライアンス担当者ではないとし、資金はロンドンを拠点とする正当なファミリーオフィスから来たと思っていた、おそらく「シンガポールから」だろうと述べた。73235 ジュークスとオーはともに辞任し、党内調査を待つ間、職務停止となった。436 ジュークスは不正を否定し、1年にわたる取材を「おとり捜査」と呼んだ。オーは協力すると述べた。436 リー・アンダーソン党首とロバート・ジェニックは、2人は党を去り、戻ることはないと述べた。367
3つの調査が交錯
警察は、コットレルに関連する党への寄付計175万ポンドを調べている。3028 逮捕者も起訴された者もいないが、ジョージとフィオナ・コットレルとみられる2人が、注意を告げられたうえで事情聴取を受けた。3022 捜査は選挙管理委員会の照会を受けて2025年2月に始まり、9月初旬時点でも継続中だった。2431 捜査当局は、寄付の前にジョージが母親へ200万ドル超を送金したかどうかも調べており、その中には140万ドルの入金も含まれる。ただし、ジョージの弁護士は、彼は寄付資格を満たしており、母親の寄付は母親自身の判断だったと主張している。2428 これとは別に、コットレルが2024年6月にリチャード・タイスの関連団体ブリテン・ミーンズ・ビジネスへ支払った100万ポンドのうち、約50万ポンドがリフォームに送られた。2428
分かっていること
不明な点
- 話し合われた50万ポンドの外国からの寄付が実際に支払われた、または受け取られたという証拠はない。
- リフォーム内部で誰が何を知っていたのか、また世論調査を申告すべきだったのかについて、確認された説明はない。
今後の展開
- Metが潜入取材に関する評価を正式な捜査に切り替えるかどうか。
- グリーンバーグがファラージに聴取し、500万ポンドの贈与を登録対象と判断するかどうか。その場合、資格停止やリコールのリスクが生じる。
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最初に報道
当社の放送 · 第1報
昼食会、世論調査、500,000ポンドの計画:ファラージ氏の側近を奪った潜入取材当社の放送 · 第2報現在地
「もちろん、そんなことはない」:リフォームを3つの戦線で窮地に追い込んだ潜入取材
情報源24
Channel 4 News
- HeyDay News
媒体別の全情報源
24媒体の39件の情報源· 引用の多い順
the Guardiantheguardian.com6
- Nigel Farage faces inquiry over £5m gift from crypto ...
- The key questions for Nigel Farage over £5m gift from crypto billionaire | Nigel Farage
- Police investigate £500,000 Reform donations from mother of fraudster who backed Farage | Reform UK
- Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother ...
- Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film | Reform UK
- Reform UK suspends two senior officials after undercover report on donations | Reform UK
Channel 4 Newschannel4.com最初動画1本5
- 最初の報道
- Reform CAUGHT ON CAMERA – the foreign money scandal
- FactCheck: Nigel Farage’s £5m gift timeline, investigation and what happens next
- FactCheck: the latest on Nigel Farage's £5m gift and his ...
- Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
- Farage doubles down over Channel 4 News investigation into Reform UK funding · 動画
Al Jazeeraaljazeera.com1
Courthouse News Servicecourthousenews.com1
CRBC Newscrbcnews.com1
Daily Mirrormirror.co.uk1
HuffPost UKhuffingtonpost.co.uk1
放送時の内容
- Undercover cameras caught a Reform UK official asking if anybody would find out about the foreign money.
- That footage has now put Reform UK and Nigel Farage under three separate live inquiries — a standards commissioner, the Metropolitan Police, and the election regulator — and one of them carries the risk of Farage losing his own seat. The question is which inquiry lands first, and whether any of them produces charges or a finding that ends his time in Parliament.
- The footage was filmed by undercover reporters who spent a year posing as a wealthy American financier and his British-born son — a son they presented as a permissible United Kingdom donor. Tonight, that sting has detonated across Reform's annual conference, and the fallout is now touching two investigations that were already running before it aired.
- Those words are the heart of the allegation — that the polls were to be paid for with money the party could not lawfully take.
- The polls were billed at thirty-two thousand, five hundred pounds between January and July this year. Some of their results later appeared in national newspapers — without the party or the foreign funder being identified.
- The alleged route runs through the permissible son to hide the impermissible father. Orr said a payment could be treated as a donation in kind. Farage's longtime aide Dan Jukes went further, suggesting the money be routed through the UK-resident son so the American father would have what he called deniability — adding that that was one of the ways in which they did it.
- At a lunch in Clacton, Farage was filmed praising one of the polls as amazing and bang for buck, and declaring "It worked. Boom." Asked whether the arrangement was above board, he replied that it was all above board.
- Since the footage aired, Farage has insisted the party took no illegal money and no donation reached it. He called the remarks loose pub talk and unauthorized boasts that simply weren't true — he wasn't listening, he says, and he is not a compliance officer. He assumed the money came from a legitimate London-based family office, possibly from Singapore. Both men stepped down and were suspended; the party chairman says they are gone and not returning.
- Labour and the Liberal Democrats have referred the party to the Metropolitan Police and the Electoral Commission. The Met says it is aware of and assessing the allegations and, as of the fifth of September, had not opened a full investigation. The Electoral Commission says it is considering the information and is in touch with the Met — noting that attempts to evade donation rules are a matter for the police.
- The sting is only one strand. The Metropolitan Police is already running a criminal investigation into five hundred thousand pounds of gifts to Reform from Fiona Cottrell — the mother of convicted fraudster George Cottrell, a Farage ally. The two direct gifts, of two hundred and fifty thousand pounds each, were made in May 2024, weeks before the general election, and are being examined for illegal funneling — for allegedly concealing an impermissible donor or false information about the source of funds.
- In total, police are looking at one point seven five million pounds in party gifts from Cottrell. Two people have been interviewed under caution — understood to be George and Fiona Cottrell. No arrests, no charges. Investigators have also examined whether George transferred more than two million dollars to his mother before the gifts, including a one point four million dollar deposit, though his lawyers maintain he is a permissible donor and that his mother's gifts were her own decision. A separate one million pound payment to a vehicle run by Richard Tice in June 2024 passed about half of it onward to Reform.
- Lay the dates side by side and the picture is of three inquiries converging on one party. The Cottrell criminal case opened in February 2025 after an Electoral Commission referral. The standards inquiry into Farage's five million pounds opened in May, paused when he resigned his seat in July, and reactivated after he won it back in the by-election — by which time the undercover footage had hit the airwaves.
- That five million pounds came from Christopher Harborne, a British cryptocurrency investor, in early 2024 — shortly before Farage announced he would stand in the general election. He did not register it. He insists it was an unconditional personal gift intended for lifetime private security — in his words, he can spend it on cars if he wants to, and it is not the public's business.
- The Commissioner is likely to interview Farage within weeks, with a possible conclusion after Parliament returns in September. Farage has called the inquiry rigged, and was warned he could face a stiffer penalty for saying so. As of today, none of the three strands has produced a finding, a charge, or an arrest — but the standards inquiry is the one most likely to carry direct political consequence. A serious finding combined with a long suspension could trigger recall proceedings in Clacton, Farage's own seat. Farage maintains the party broke no laws.
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