{"id":5600,"date":"2026-05-13T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:10:06","slug":"farage-to-face-formal-investigation-by-parliamentary-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=5600","title":{"rendered":"Farage to face formal investigation by parliamentary watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>He is set to be probed.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>Nigel Farage is to be investigated over\u00a0a \u00a35m sum he received\u00a0from a crypto billionaire and did not declare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The Reform leader has been under scrutiny in recent weeks over the money, that he received from Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Farage did not declare the money, and\u00a0will now be investigated\u00a0by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner over whether he breached the House of Commons Code of Conduct in the process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$?--><template id=\"B:0\"\/><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The Clacton MP has said he was sent the money by Harborne so he could fund his personal security costs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Farage has denied that he should have declared the sum, which he received just weeks before announcing he would stand as a candidate in the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Commons rules state that MPs are required to declare any potentially relevant gifts or donations received in the 12 months before entering parliament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Labour and the Conservative Party have both claimed the money from Harborne falls within these rules.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$?--><template id=\"B:1\"\/><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Should an investigation conclude that Farage committed a serious breach of parliamentary rules, he could be suspended from the Commons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Farage #face #formal #investigation #parliamentary #watchdog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is set to be probed. Nigel Farage is to be investigated over\u00a0a \u00a35m sum he received\u00a0from a crypto billionaire and did not declare. The Reform leader has been under scrutiny in recent weeks over the money, that he received from Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne in 2024. Farage did not declare the money, and\u00a0will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1095,1709,3204,3028,923,2153,217,429],"class_list":{"0":"post-5600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-face","9":"tag-farage","10":"tag-formal","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nigel-farage","14":"tag-parliamentary","15":"tag-watchdog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}