Will the Tories return donations from thief Nadir?

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…