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“显然不会”:让改革党陷入三线作战的卧底行动
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午餐、民调与50万英镑计划:让法拉奇失去核心圈子的暗访当时尚无定论
- 目前尚未认定该党接受过任何不合规捐款,也未认定法拉奇知晓相关计划。
我们说过将关注的
- 伦敦警察厅是否会将评估转为正式调查,并将范围扩大到这两名助手之外。
现在
隐藏摄像机拍下两名助手密谋为民调秘密获取美国资金。法拉奇称那只是酒吧闲谈——但警方和标准事务负责人已在追查此前数百万英镑资金问题,该党同时面临三项仍在进行的调查。
现已确认
- 卧底团队拍下 Orr 和 Jukes 讨论一笔秘密美国款项,用于支付32,500英镑的民调费用。
- 伦敦警察厅对2024年5月 Cottrell 赠款的刑事调查仍在进行,尚未起诉任何人。
- 截至9月8日,针对 Harborne 500万英镑赠款的标准调查尚未公布结论。
会有人发现吗?我会告诉任何人吗?显然不会。
三项调查交汇
警方总计正在调查与 Cottrell 有关的175万英镑政党赠款。3028 两人已在告知可能被起诉的情况下接受问询,据信是 George 和 Fiona Cottrell;目前没有人被捕,也没有人被起诉。3022 调查于2025年2月在选举委员会移交后启动,至9月初仍在进行。2431 调查人员还审查了 George 是否在赠款支付前向母亲转账超过200万美元,其中包括一笔140万美元的存款;不过,他的律师坚称他是符合资格的捐赠者,而其母亲的赠款是她自行决定的。2428 2024年6月,Cottrell 另向 Richard Tice 的组织 Britain Means Business 支付了100万英镑,其中约50万英镑随后转给了改革党。2428
已知
未知
- 没有证据表明讨论中的50万英镑外国捐款曾被支付或收取。
- 没有经证实的说法说明改革党内部谁知道什么,也不清楚这项民调是否应当申报。
后续
- 伦敦警察厅是否会将对卧底行动相关指控的评估升级为全面调查。
- Greenberg 是否会约谈法拉奇,并认定这500万英镑必须申报,从而使法拉奇面临停职和罢免程序。
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“显然不会”:让改革党陷入三线作战的卧底行动
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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
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- 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 · 视频
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- 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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