LEYTON: Prosecutors considering charges over expenses (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

LEYTON: Prosecutors considering charges over expenses

5:09pm Friday 19th March 2010 in

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ANOTHER file of evidence against an unnamed parliamentarian over suspected abuse of the expenses system has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service.

The file is the seventh relating to parliamentary expenses to be sent to prosecutors, who will now consider whether to press criminal charges.

Police have refused to confirm who is the subject of the file.

It has been reported that Leyton MP Harry Cohen, who was censured for a serious breach of expenses rules by a Commons committee, is being investigated by police.

Mr Cohen wrongly claimed more than £70,000 after delegating a property in Wanstead, where he spent most of his time, as his second home.

He has been ordered to forgo a £65,000 ‘golden goodbye’ he was due to receive when he leaves Parliament at the next election.