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Conservative MEP kicked out of the Party over £500,000 false expenses claims

“David Cameron lectures others on transparency and openness but he really has to get his house in order first,” says Labour’s Denis MacShane after news broke that the Tory leader has expelled former Chief Whip Den Dover MEP from the Party and the Euro-MP must repay £500,000 in false expenses claims.

Dover will face a fraud investigation by the EU’s anti-fraud body, OLAF, into claims that he siphoned £758,000 of public money to family staff through a secretarial provider over nine years. OLAF has the power to ask police to carry out searches.

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