Conduct of Mr George Galloway,First Report of Session 2003-04,Report and Appendix,Together with Formal Minutes

Download or read book Conduct of Mr George Galloway,First Report of Session 2003-04,Report and Appendix,Together with Formal Minutes written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards and Privileges and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee's report considers the allegations against Mr George Galloway, MP for Glasgow Kelvin, relating to documents found by a "Daily Telegraph" reporter in Baghdad, purporting to show that he had received some £375,000 from the former Iraqi regime, under the guise of the UN Oil for Food Programme, which he has not recorded in the Register of Member's Interests. He has denied these allegations and has begun libel proceedings against the "Telegraph" and the "Christian Science Monitor". At the same time, the Charity Commission is inquiring whether the Mariam Appeal (which Mr Galloway launched in 1998 and from which he has registered the receipt of several payments for overseas travel) may have used charitable funds for non-charitable purposes. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has received letters from Mr Galloway's solicitor and Mr Galloway himself, stating that the Commissioner's inquiries were prejudicial to the ongoing libel cases. The Commissioner will continue his inquiries but will not report to the Committee until the legal proceedings are over.