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Article: A financial probe and pounds 1m from an ex bookie: the truth behind Ukip With elections looming and party's membership falling, Electoral Commission investigates donor lists. Andrew Alderson and Robert Watts report
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- February 11, 2007
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Bolstered by defections from the Tories, and with his party's vote
rising election by election, Nigel Farage struck a confident note as
he announced plans for the future of the United Kingdom Independence
Party (Ukip) last week.
Behind the scenes, however, the party he leads faces a series of
questions over funding. The euro-sceptic Ukip is being investigated
by the Electoral Commission, which says that it is concerned that its
most recent accounts were filed more than six months late. It is also
investigating a series of "separate issues''.
An investigation by this newspaper has also revealed that Alan
Bown, a former bookmaker, has bankrolled Ukip with more than pounds
1million. He has ...