The Metropolitan Police is carrying retired a transgression probe into allegations Reform UK broke the instrumentality successful narration to overseas funding, pursuing a broadcast by Channel 4 News past week.
Two elder aides were removed from their jobs past week aft an undercover probe recorded them talking astir however to get wealth to the enactment from an American donor and asking a fake institution to wage for polling.
The constabulary probe by the Met's Special Enquiry Team is being folded into an enquiry that has been nether mode into different donations to the party.
A Reform UK spokesperson said the enactment "denies immoderate wrongdoing and volition afloat cooperate with the investigation".
"We won't beryllium commenting further portion a unrecorded probe is nether way."
A Met spokesperson said it had received "a fig of reports relating to donations and polling involving a governmental party", pursuing the movie by Channel 4 News and Verbatim Investigations.
In its statement, the Met Police said: "All allegations nether probe subordinate to imaginable offences nether the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
"Detectives proceed to liaise intimately with the Electoral Commission and Crown Prosecution Service arsenic enquiries progress."
The constabulary spokesperson said detectives were seeking to get footage relating to the broadcast.
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