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Malaysiakini
25-05-2025
- Business
- Malaysiakini
'Deferred prosecution' plan should be further deferred
COMMENT | When the news surfaced in 2015 that Sarclad - a Rotherham-based private technology company - was rumoured to be the first to sign a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO), it sparked a raft of issues over the future of justice in corporate cases. It all started when Sarclad and a few other companies were invited by the SFO to attend DPA negotiations after an investigation was launched into irregularities in their business conduct - including allegations of bribery prohibited in the UK under the Bribery Act 2010 - across a number of jurisdictions. At that time, it was vehemently argued that...
The Guardian
24-02-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Former Brexit party MEP in court on Russia-linked bribery charges
A former leader of Reform UK in Wales agreed to receive money to make statements 'benefiting' the Russian narrative on Ukraine while serving as an MEP, a court has been told. Details of the allegations against Nathan Gill, who served as a member of the European parliament for Ukip and later the Brexit party from 2014 to 2020, were laid out at Westminster magistrates court on Monday. Police stopped him at Manchester airport on 13 September 2021 after he had been 'tasked' on at least eight occasions to make specific statements in the European parliament and to news outlets concerning Ukraine, the court heard. Reading the charges to the court, Richard Link, a Crown Prosecution Service solicitor, said Gill stood accused of accepting payment to 'make statements [which] had a particular narrative that would have been seen to benefit Russia in relation to events in Ukraine at the time'. Link said it was alleged that Gill 'agreed to receive or accept money' in contravention of the Bribery Act. Gill, 51, who lives in Anglesey (Ynys Môn), has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery under the Criminal Law Act 1977, and eight counts of bribery under the Bribery Act 2010. He denies the charges. The senior district judge Paul Goldspring told Gill that he was sending the case to the Old Bailey and instructed him to appear there on 14 March. Gill appeared via remote link alongside his solicitor. An application was granted for Gill to be released on conditional bail. He was ordered to surrender his passport, refrain from applying for any international travel documentation and to avoid contact with associated parties. Reform UK has said Gill was never a member of the party but confirmed that he had the official status of being a supporter.
Telegraph
21-02-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Reform's former Welsh leader charged with bribery
Reform UK's former leader in Wales has been charged with eight counts of bribery following an investigation by anti-terror detectives. Nathan Gill, 51, who previously served as a Brexit Party MEP and leader of the Welsh division of UK Independence Party (Ukip), is due to appear at Westminster magistrates' court on Monday to face the allegations. He has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery under the Criminal Law Act 1977 and eight counts of bribery under the Bribery Act 2010, according to the Metropolitan Police. It follows an investigation by detectives from the force's counter-terrorism command, with the charges authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service. Mr Gill was announced as Reform's leader in Wales on X, formerly Twitter, in March 2021, ahead of the Senedd elections in May. There is some confusion over how long he held the role. Local media reported that he left Reform shortly after failing to win a seat in the Welsh parliament. A Reform source insisted Mr Gill was never technically a member because the party had no formal members at that stage. Formerly known as the Brexit Party, it officially became Reform UK in January 2021. However, he was one of the party's most high-profile figures in Wales ahead of the Senedd election and ran as an official Reform candidate. Mr Gill previously served as a member of the European Parliament between 2014 and 2020, representing the Brexit Party, Reform's predecessor, for the latter part, and Ukip earlier on, with a short spell as an independent between the two. He also led the Welsh wing of Ukip between 2014 and 2016 and briefly served in the Welsh parliament between 2016 and 2017. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: 'The investigation has been led by detectives from the Met's counter-terrorism command and a man was previously interviewed under caution on 3 March 2022 in connection with bribery allegations. 'Further enquiries were carried out by officers and after authorisation by the Crown Prosecution Service Counter-Terrorism Division, the man was subsequently charged as above.'
The Guardian
20-02-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Former leader of Reform UK in Wales charged with bribery offences
Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been charged with multiple bribery offences after an investigation led by the police's counter-terrorism command. Gill, 51, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, under the Criminal Law Act 1977, and with eight counts of bribery, under the Bribery Act 2010, police said. He will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Monday 24 February. A spokesperson for Reform said not only was Gill no longer a member of the party, but that he had never been a member. 'He's nothing to do with the party. Membership records show he has never been a member,' they said. Material on Facebook from 2021 shows Gill wearing a Reform UK rosette while campaigning with Richard Tice, who is now Reform UK's deputy leader. 'Great to be with Nathan Gill, leader of Reform UK Wales, campaigning today,' Tice posted. Police said Gill, who lives in Anglesey (Ynys Môn), north Wales, was charged by postal requisition, adding: 'The investigation has been led by detectives from the Met's counter-terrorism command and a man was previously interviewed under caution on 3 March 2022 in connection with bribery allegations. 'Further inquiries were carried out by officers and after authorisation by the Crown Prosecution Service counter-terrorism division, the man was subsequently charged as above.' Gill became an MEP for Ukip in 2014, a role that ended when Britain left the European Union. He quit Ukip after accusing it of losing its focus on Brexit to pursue an anti-Islam agenda. In 2019 he was elected to the European parliament for Nigel Farage's Brexit party, the forerunner to Reform UK. Gill was also a member of the national assembly for Wales between May 2016 and December 2017. After leaving Ukip he sat as an independent and in 2021 was billed as Reform UK's leader in Wales before Senedd elections. He failed to win a seat. On his X account, last updated in 2021, Gill wrote: 'The last MEP for Wales, having worked for 16 years to make it so. Love my God, my family and my country. Not ashamed or afraid to be patriotic.' In 2016 he described the importance to his life of his Mormon faith. He told the BBC that he was teetotal and had been a bishop in Anglesey with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for six years.
