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August 22, 2012 2:03 pm

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While we’re on the subject of Tory donors – former Polly Peck tycoon – and Tory donor – Asil Nadir, has been convicted of stealing £28.6m today. As Political Scrapbook rightly noted yesterday:

In June 1993, the then Tory chair Norman Fowler told the Commons :

“I have set out the position of Mr. Asil Nadir fully and clearly. Let me make this clear : we will return the money if it was stolen.”

They probably won’t though – at least if the Tories follow their Lib Dem partners. Clegg has refused to repay the £2.4 million donation from fraudster and conman Michael Brown – which came exclusively from stolen funds.

The £440,000 of donations made by Nadir would be worth £860,000 today. There are millions of stolen funds sitting in the bank accounts of the two coalition parties.

It’s time they paid it back…

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  • trotters1957

    Did he get a lunch or country supper with John Major ?

  • robertcp

    It could get very expensive for all parties if they have to return every donation from someone dodgy.

    • John_Dore

      Michael Brown?? Was his money returned?

  • JoeDM

    But the donations were from the company 30 years ago, not from the person convicted !!!

    Should Labour return donations from a Trade Union whose leader had broken the law?

    • aracataca

      Which trade union leader are you referring to here?

  • MarcusTankus

     So …did he get a passport or a policy change ?

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