A formal complaint about a Liverpool City Council cabinet member is being looked into by the local authority and the Labour Party.
An investigation by the ECHO found Cllr Abdul Qadir, the council's cabinet member for neighbourhoods, had links to a large stalled development scheme in Vauxhall through the Liverpool-based Vega Group, which owns MV Canal, the subsidiary company behind the scheme. Cllr Qadir has been a director of Vega Group company Vega Trading since September 2014.
Cllr Qadir was a member of a Liverpool Council taskforce - or task and finish group - set up to investigate buyer-funded property schemes in the city, also known as fractional sales. Fractional schemes, where buyers put down large deposits to finance off-plan apartment schemes, attracted huge controversy following the collapse of high profile projects.
