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Expenses Fiddler Lord Paul Repays £38,000

The Telegraph is reporting that Lord Paul has repaid the £38,000 he claimed in expenses for a flat in Oxfordshire that he never stayed in.

According to Andrew Alderson:

Political sources have revealed that Lord Paul – who is one of the country’s richest men and worth an estimated £500 million – has quietly and voluntarily repaid the £38,000.

The peer has admitted that he never spent a single night at an Oxfordshire flat that he registered as his main home while claiming money in overnight expenses for a London property… Lord Paul has denied breaking the law or acting improperly despite having never staying at what he called his main home. “It’s true I never slept there.

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