Showing posts with label cash-for-honours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cash-for-honours. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Met Investigating Cash-for-honours Claims Linked to Prince’s Foundation

THE GUARDIAN: Metropolitan police have launched investigation into allegations linked to Prince Charles charity

Prince Charles, who established the Prince’s Foundation charity. Photograph: Reuters

Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into cash-for-honours allegations linked to the Prince of Wales’s charity the Prince’s Foundation.

In a brief statement, the Metropolitan police said it had launched the investigation after media reports alleging offers of help were made to secure honours and citizenship for a Saudi national.

In September last year, the Sunday Times published claims that the billionaire Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz paid tens of thousands of pounds to fixers with links to Prince Charles who had told him they could secure the honour.

Bin Mahfouz was awarded a CBE at a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace in November 2016. » | Jaimie Grierson | Wednesday, February 16, 2022

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À PROPOS DE CETTE HISTOIRE EN FRANÇAIS :

La police britannique ouvre une enquête sur un scandale lié à une fondation du prince Charles : Des dons à la fondation du prince Charles auraient été récompensés par des titres honorifiques et auraient servi à appuyer une demande de naturalisation d'un homme d'affaires saoudien. »

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