Three arrested in Chafford Hundred over London fraud
3:22pm Sunday 18th May 2008
HOMES in Chafford Hundred were raided by the Metropolitan Police's Specialist and Economic Crime Command over fraud allegations concerning organisations given funds by City Hall.
Two men and one woman were held in raids by police investigating allegations of fraud in connection with organisations which received funding from the London Development Agency.
A 41-year-old woman and two men, aged 42 and 43, were arrested on suspicion of dishonestly obtaining property by deception and money laundering.
Thursday's raids follow allegations about money paid by the London Development Agency, the mayor of London's business arm, to a six organisations.
Former mayor Ken Mr Livingstone's race adviser Lee Jasper, 49, resigned amid allegations over the misuse of public funds.
An internal inquiry in January cleared him of any wrongdoing.
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Mr Joe Public, Thurrock says...
11:10pm Sun 18 May 08
EP, Omnipresent says...
5:19am Mon 19 May 08
Mr Joe Public, Thurrock says...
8:56am Mon 19 May 08
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EP, Omnipresent says...
9:11am Mon 19 May 08
Mr Joe Public, Thurrock says...
11:05am Mon 19 May 08
Maybe we should allow the investigation to take place & conclude? Before making pre-emptive assumptions, regardless of hue of skin fraud/crime is not related to ethnic groups and not a racial issue.
Im not sticking up for fraudsters at all. If they are guilty they deserve everything they get
We live in a democracy and everyone is innocent until proven guilty not the other way around... :)
EP, Omnipresent says...
12:39pm Mon 19 May 08
spartacus, grays says...
6:47pm Mon 19 May 08
Mr Joe Public, Thurrock says...
8:57pm Mon 19 May 08
doesn't take detectives to work that out. eh?
have a £3 coin.
Jazz, Thurrock says...
9:15pm Tue 20 May 08
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pa, grays says...
4:37pm Sun 18 May 08
The rate at which these types of stories are now coming out in Thurrock where no black people from London moved to is absolutely staggering. I smell the end of a government.