File photograph of Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (Reuters)
Johnson has confronted repeated questions in latest days over the funding of the refurbishment, which ministers stated he had paid for.
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LONDON: Britain’s electoral fee stated on Wednesday it was glad that there have been grounds to suspect that an offence may need occurred over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s refurbishment of his residence in Downing Avenue.
Johnson has confronted repeated questions in latest days over the funding of the refurbishment, which ministers stated he had paid for. Nonetheless, it’s unclear when he paid, with media studies that his Conservative Get together may need initially supplied a mortgage.
“We are actually glad that there are affordable grounds to suspect that an offence or offences could have occurred,” stated the fee, the impartial physique which oversees elections and regulates political finance.
“We’ll subsequently proceed this work as a proper investigation to ascertain whether or not that is the case.”
It stated it will present no additional remark till its investigation was full.
“The investigation will decide whether or not any transactions referring to the works at 11 Downing Avenue fall inside the regime regulated by the fee and whether or not such funding was reported as required,” the assertion stated.
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