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Nigel Farage: EU to investigate Brexit Party leader over ‘undeclared’ gifts

Written by on 21/05/2019

The EU is to investigate Nigel Farage over claims the Brexit Party leader failed to declare gifts worth up to a total of £450,000.

Sky’s Europe correspondent Mark Stone has said the investigation centres on “Mr Farage’s lifestyle as an MEP during the summer and autumn of 2016”.

In that period, following the Brexit referendum, Mr Farage made lavish trips to the United States to meet president Donald Trump and other right-wing politicians, funded, it is alleged, by Arron Banks.

Other gifts provided by the insurance tycoon included a chauffeur-driven car and rent and bills on a £4.4m home in Chelsea, west London.

Mr Banks, who co-founded Leave.EU, is under investigation by the National Crime Agency over allegations he and the unofficial campaign committed multiple criminal offences during the referendum campaign.

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(c) Sky News 2019: Nigel Farage: EU to investigate Brexit Party leader over ‘undeclared’ gifts