Pro-Brexit group Leave.EU was fined £70,000 on Friday for exceeding campaign spending laws ahead of the 2016 vote to exit the European Union, the UK Electoral Commission said. The group also incorrectly reported what it spent during the campaign and inaccurately reported three loans it had received, according to the commission. The Leave.EU campaign group was founded by multi-millionaire Banks in July 2015 and was initially backed by former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Farage, but it lost out on official campaign status to the Vote Leave group. Banks denounced the investigation as “a politically motivated attack on Brexit and the 17.4 million people who defied the establishment to vote for an independent Britain. “The EC went big game fishing and found a few ‘aged’ dead sardines on the beach.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 11, 2018 07:52 UTC