Galloway: The enquiry by the charity commission into the Mariam Appeal has recovered all money in and all money out.
A spokesperson for the Charity Commission, speaking after Galloways testimony, said that there had been "limitations on the [Miriam] inquiry, as the records of the appeal had been taken out of the country by its then chairman, Mr Zureikat." Zureikat still refuses to hand over these records.
Galloway: These are the same documents that were considered by the UK courts in relation to the Telegraph Libel case.
Not so. The Al-Mada / Congress documents came from SOMO (the state oil company). The Telegraph documents came from the foreign ministry.
Galloway: I do not own any companies.
This is both untrue and misleading.
It is untrue because Galloway has owned companies that have received funding from foreign powers as in the case of Pakistan and Asian Voice , in which company Galloway was a 1/3 shareholder .
It is misleading because more recently Galloways prefered method of receiving bribes from foreign powers is via "donations" to his unregistered charities because:
In the UK charities do not need to publish accounts
Unregistered charities do not face restrictions by charity guidelines which ban political campaigning
Although the charities commmission can investigate anyone they deems to be operating a charity unregistered charities (usually) avoid Charity Commision oversight.
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