‘VOTE LEAVE’ GROUP BROKE UK LAW, CALL TO REVOKE BREXIT
PTI. Khalil also told the Pakistani media he would support Umar, whom he had hosted at a meeting on Sunday.
The development comes close on the heels of members of several terror groups, including the Jamaat-ud-dawah, contesting the July 25 general elections. After the Election Commission refused to register the Jud’s political party, its candidates were fielded under the banner of the little known Allah-hu-akbar Tehreek.
Khalil currently heads the Ansar-ul-umma, which was des- LONDON: The official group that campaigned for Brexit before the 2016 referendum – fronted by former foreign secretary Boris Johnson and Conservative MP Priti Patel, among others – broke the law, Britain’s election regulator said on Tuesday.
The development prompted renewed calls for scrapping the referendum result and holding another following the Electoral Commission’s damning conclusion after an investigation that the Vote Leave group exceeded the £7 million spending limit.
The commission fined the group £61,000 and referred it to Scotland Yard for further action, a development that raised serious concerns within the ruling Conservative Party and opposition Labour benches, while Prime Minister Theresa May faced fresh challenges in Parliament to pass bills related to Brexit.
Vote Leave said the “wholly inaccurate” report was politically motivated, but the commission said it found “substantial evidence” that the two groups worked to a common plan, did not declare their joint working, and did not adhere to the legal spending limits.
Bob Posner from the commission said: “Vote Leave has resisted our investigation from the start, including contesting our right as the statutory regulator to open the investigation.
THE VOTE LEAVE GROUP EXCEEDED ITS £7 MILLION SPENDING LIMIT BY FUNNELLING
£675,315 THROUGH THE PROBREXIT YOUTH GROUP BELEAVE.
ignated a front for the HUM by the US in September 2014. At the same time, Khalil was designated a global terrorist. At the time, the US said Khalil’s group was responsible for terror attacks in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Currently based in Rawalpindi, Khalil is believed to have retained links to several terror groups and the Pakistani military establishment.
He was one of signatories of Osama bin Laden’s declaration of global jihad in 1996 and has been accused of having close ties with al-qaeda.