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‘Dark money’ Scottish group fined for failing to declare huge donations to the Tories
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A “DARK money” Scottish group has been fined for failing to declare hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations to the Tories.

The Scottish Unionist Association Trust (SUAT), which is based in Glasgow, has been fined £1,800 by the Electoral Commission for not declaring donations worth £318,876 to the Conservatives between April 2001 and February 2018.

As an unincorporated association, SUAT is required to formally notify the commission when it makes political contributions of more than £25,000 per calendar year.

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