BNP finances under investigation

Following comments by registered auditors Silver & Co, claiming that the financial statements submitted by the British National Party in 2008 did not “give a true and fair view of the state of the party’s affairs”, the independent Electoral Commission has started an investigation into the party’s financial accounts from that year. The matter was kicked off in January with a case review, now moving into a formal investigation to find out whether there has been any kind of breach in the rules, a step in which the commission can use its full statutory powers to obtain relevant information on the issue.

The Electoral Commission mentions that no conclusion has yet been reached and that the assumption shouldn’t be made that rules have been broken. The auditors making the initial claim said that, in their opinion, the BNP’s accounts failed to comply with requirements specific to political entities, as outlined by the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act of 2000.

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