Wee Dougie's Sister Funding Investigation
Scotsman.com News - Did she break the rules?
WENDY Alexander became embroiled in a fresh Labour Party donor row last night, as it emerged the Electoral Commission was investigating a donation to her Scottish leadership campaign fund.
Paul Green, 65, a Labour supporter in the Channel Islands, is not allowed to give money to UK political parties because he is not on the UK electoral register. The retail developer, who is behind some of Scotland's highest-profile shopping centres, gave £995 to the fund set up to run Ms Alexander's summer campaign through one of his companies, Combined Property Services, which is registered in the UK.
It is understood that Ms Alexander's team approached him to make a donation...He routed the money through his Glasgow-based firm as a UK corporate donation. The pledge is just below the £1,000 limit, above which Ms Alexander would have had to register it at the outset with the Electoral Commission..
As they were happy it didn't break the rules why ask for a sum they didn't have to register...