 Ashley Mote. Source: www.europarl.eu.int Ashley Mote is a Member of the European Parliament for South East England. He was elected as a representative of the United Kingdom Independence Party but has since had the party whip removed. He was first elected in 2004. Image File history File linksMetadata Ashley_mote. ...
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A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ...
South East England is one of the official regions of England. ...
The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced you-kip) is a Eurosceptic political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union. ...
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He used to work in the marketing industry and has published two political books - Vigilance - A Defence of British Liberty (2001) about the European Union, and OverCrowded Britain: Our Immigration Crisis Exposed (2003) about immigration. He has also written about cricket. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ...
The UKIP removed the whip from Ashley Mote on 15 July 2004 after learning that he faces trial over allegations of housing benefit fraud. Mr Mote failed to tell party managers of the impending court case and it only came to their attention when an article appeared in the Daily Telegraph, a few days after the European Union's election [1]. The Telegraph reported that he was facing nine charges of false accounting and one of making a false representation. In politics, a whip is a member of a political party in a legislature whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ...
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Typically, defrauding a government by falsely claiming state help or money. ...
This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ...
Ironically since the news of his fraud charges were published he has called himself "(someone) who has researched EU fraud for many years"[2]. He is of course a members of the European Parliament.
In a court hearing on 25 November, Mote sought adjournement from the court so that he could obtain parliamentary immunity as an MEP. In June 2005 the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market of the European Parliament decided to request that his immunity be waived. [3] The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ...
To promote transparency, in 2005 Hans Peter Martin, Paul van Buitenen (Europa Transparant) and Ashley Mote decided to cooperate under the name Platform for Transparency (PfT). In the physical sciences, specifically in optics, a transparent physical object is one that can be seen through. ...
Hans-Peter Martin Hans-Peter Martin (born August 11, 1957) is an Austrian journalist who has also been a Member of the European Parliament since 1999. ...
Paul van Buitenen (born 28 May 1957 in Breda) was a Dutch assistant-auditor in the European Commission’s Financial Control Directorate who became the whistle blower who first drew the attention of a Member of the European Parliament to the irregularities, fraud and mismanagement within the Commission in 1998. ...
Europa Transparant (Transparent Europe) is a political party in the Netherlands. ...
See Also As with all public budgets, the EUs Community budget is also at risk of maladministration. ...
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