Mayor of Tower Hamlets investigated for diverting millions to Muslim groups

Tower Hamlets: Eric Pickles sends fraud inspectors to investigate Lutfur Rahman

Tower Hamlets council was swooped on today by  inspectors launching a major investigation into claims of fraud and financial mismanagement.
They arrived at 8am at the headquarters of Mayor Lutfur Rahman in Mulberry Place, and were understood to be gathering boxes of official files.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles ordered a full probe into a series of alleged scandals surrounding the administration of Mr Rahman, who was elected as an independent mayor in 2010.
And a dossier containing secret documents that raised “serious concerns” was passed to Scotland Yard by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
It follows years of allegations in the east London borough, including questions over the controversial sale of Poplar Town Hall to businessmen.
The inspectors have been specifically asked to look into “the transfer of property by the authority to third parties”, as well as grants and spending. Mr Pickles appointed auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers to carry out the inspection, using new powers that only came into force today.


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tower-hamlets-eric-pickles-sends-fraud-inspectors-to-investigate-lutfur-rahman-9237712.html


Looks like some serious fraud has been on!

Tommy Monk wrote:Tower Hamlets: Eric Pickles sends fraud inspectors to investigate Lutfur Rahman

Tower Hamlets council was swooped on today by  inspectors launching a major investigation into claims of fraud and financial mismanagement.
They arrived at 8am at the headquarters of Mayor Lutfur Rahman in Mulberry Place, and were understood to be gathering boxes of official files.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles ordered a full probe into a series of alleged scandals surrounding the administration of Mr Rahman, who was elected as an independent mayor in 2010.
And a dossier containing secret documents that raised “serious concerns” was passed to Scotland Yard by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
It follows years of allegations in the east London borough, including questions over the controversial sale of Poplar Town Hall to businessmen.
The inspectors have been specifically asked to look into “the transfer of property by the authority to third parties”, as well as grants and spending. Mr Pickles appointed auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers to carry out the inspection, using new powers that only came into force today.


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tower-hamlets-eric-pickles-sends-fraud-inspectors-to-investigate-lutfur-rahman-9237712.html


Looks like some serious fraud has been on!

It will be interesting to see how this pans out

Definately.


And the wider issue of why tax payers are funding these so called 'charity' organisations anyway?

Tommy Monk wrote:Definately.


And the wider issue of why tax payers are funding these so called 'charity' organisations anyway?

True, especially when the genuine charities are getting less and less funding.

Lutfur Rahman, the extremist-linked mayor of Tower Hamlets, is a worried man today. As I reported in this morning’s paper, the Government finally appears to be gearing up for a full investigation into his incredible regime, the subject of a broadcast by the BBC’s Panorama tonight....

Lutfur, the former Labour council leader, was replaced, deselected and subsequently expelled by the Labour Party after I revealed his close links to an Islamic extremist organisation, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), which believes in turning Europe into an Islamic state under sharia law. He was subsequently elected mayor as an independent.

As we have catalogued in the paper and on this blog, Lutfur has channelled millions of pounds in council grants to IFE front organisations and to close colleagues and associates, often at the expense of established, secular groups serving the whole community...

The desperation that Panorama has caused in Camp Rahman is gigantic – and possibly just as revealing as anything likely to be in the programme itself. Lutfur's attempts to stymie the broadcast are a whole story of their own. He hired a law firm and PR specialists to try to stop it. He’s produced an expensively-produced counterattack film (did public money pay for that, I wonder?) and making predictable charges of racism and Islamophobia...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100265630/lutfur-rahman-faces-government-investigation-after-failing-to-stop-bbc-panorama-expose/

This man is a complete wrong'un and I hope he does up in jail for his corruption.

Did anyone see Panorama?

I saw it.

Most interesting!


You can watch it here.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jc5nQAlq-I




Import a load of third world scum bags and they elect a scum bag!

Tommy Monk wrote:I saw it.

Most interesting!


You can watch it here.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jc5nQAlq-I




Import a load of third world scum bags and they elect a scum bag!

Cheers, I have saved it and will watch afterwards

Another "benefit"?

" Lutfur Rahman: police find 'no credible evidence' of Tower Hamlets council criminality after mayor's office investigatedScotland Yard says it can find no “credible evidence” of criminality after examining files seized in raids on Tower Hamlets council.

Government inspectors swooped on the headquarters of elected local mayor Lutfur Rahman earlier this month amid allegations of fraud and financial mismanagement.

Today the Met said officers had spent six days combing through material seized but could find no evidence offences had been committed “at this stage”.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/lutfur-rahman-police-find-no-credible-evidence-of-tower-hamlets-council-criminality-after-mayors-office-investigated-9264921.html

Another whitewash.

Maybe because " The mayor has always denied the allegations, claiming they were the result of racism and Islamophobia. "