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Alasdair Ferguson

Nigel Farage's £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering fears

Nigel Farage resigned as the Clacton MP (Image: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)

A £5 MILLION gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire given to Nigel Farage was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers over fears it may have been laundered money, it has emerged.

The multi-million-pound undeclared gift from the Thailand-based billionaire Christopher Harborne, which Farage said was the “equivalent of a lottery win,” is already being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over whether the Reform leader’s failure to declare the money breached parliamentary rules.

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