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muriel_volestrangler

(101,316 posts) Tue Apr 21, 2015, 05:20 PM Apr 2015

Former UKIP MEP Ashley Mote denies £500,000 fraud of European Parliament (update: guilty)

Last edited Fri May 15, 2015, 03:34 PM - Edit history (1)

A former MEP fraudulently claimed almost £500,000 in European Parliament expenses, using some of it to fund his domestic court battles, a court heard.

Ashley Mote, 79, who sat as an independent after being thrown out of UKIP, denies 11 fraud-related charges.

The jury at Southwark Crown Court was told the offences were alleged to have taken place between November 2004 and July 2010.
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He denies four counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception, three of false accounting, two of fraud, and one each of acquiring criminal property and concealing criminal property.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32402220

Mote was sentenced to 9 months for benefit fraud in the UK in 2007: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/sep/04/eu.ukcrime . He received his MEP salary while in prison, and sat as an MEP until 2009.

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Former UKIP MEP Ashley Mote denies £500,000 fraud of European Parliament (update: guilty) (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Apr 2015 OP

Oh yes, what an ornament to South East England LeftishBrit Apr 2015 #1

I think every region of the UK has had at least one real stinker of an MEP T_i_B Apr 2015 #2

And he's guilty muriel_volestrangler May 2015 #3

No wonder UKIP tend to assume everyone else is scamming; they are doubtless judging others by their LeftishBrit May 2015 #4

Former MEP Ashley Mote jailed over expenses fraud T_i_B Jul 2015 #5

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)

1. Oh yes, what an ornament to South East England

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Wed Apr 22, 2015, 02:46 AM

Apr 2015

T_i_B

(14,738 posts)

2. I think every region of the UK has had at least one real stinker of an MEP

Reply to LeftishBrit (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 22, 2015, 03:12 AM

Apr 2015

And most of those have been 'Kippers!

Robert Kilroy-Silk, Ashley Mote, Tom Wise, Janice Atkinson......just a few terrible examples.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,316 posts)

3. And he's guilty

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2015, 03:34 PM

May 2015

Former MEP Ashley Mote convicted of expenses fraud

A former MEP has been convicted of fraudulently claiming almost £500,000 in European Parliament expenses.
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The offences took place between November 2004 and July 2010.
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Mote claimed the money was to pay whistleblowers in cash through third parties. He also said he had been "targeted for being an anti-EU MEP."

During his time an MEP he also made £250,000 legitimate expenses claims.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32752918

About £100,000 a year, during and after his conviction for benefit fraud! The man had balls the size of Brussels.

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)

4. No wonder UKIP tend to assume everyone else is scamming; they are doubtless judging others by their

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2015, 03:40 AM

May 2015

own standards.

Horrible as Carswell is, he is an exception to that. But the other Kippers all seem to love the gravy train.

T_i_B

(14,738 posts)

5. Former MEP Ashley Mote jailed over expenses fraud

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 07:03 AM

Jul 2015

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33508850

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