Repairing the deputy suspends himself from the party on the allegations of loan covid

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The deputy reform in the United Kingdom itself from the party due to allegations that he had received 70,000 pounds from government loans during the Corona virus.

James McDordok removed the whip from himself, leaving the right -wing Nigel Faraj Popular Party with only four deputies in the House of Commons.

Saturday Sunday Times McMurdock, a deputy of South Basildon, east Thorok and a former banker, borrowed tens of thousands of pounds under the government loan plan in 2020 through two companies he owned.

The scheme helped small and medium companies borrow from 2000 pounds to 25 percent of their rotation. The maximum loan available was 50,000 pounds.

Jam Financial Limited did not have any employees and minimal assets until Covid-19 hit but the company managed to borrow 50,000 pounds during the epidemic, according to the demands in the Sunday Times.

According to the rules of the plan, the company would need sales of 200,000 pounds to borrow 50,000 pounds. JAM had a total of 3,712 pounds of £ 3,712 in 2020, according to accounts at Companies House.

The other company was Gym Live Health and Fitness Limited, which was sleeping until January 31, 2020. Even in 2021 he had it Net assets From 3,277 pounds only. Over the following year, I borrowed 20,000 pounds, according to the Sunday Times, which would have required a rotation of 80,000 pounds in the Bunch Back scheme.

The head of the reform, Li Anderson, said on Saturday that he called him Mamorduk before publishing the claims.

Anderson said: “The allegations are related to the bonding of the epidemic and before it becomes a deputy,” Anderson said.

“In the UK reform, we take these matters seriously and James agreed to cooperate entirely with any investigation. We will not attach more at this moment.”

The Sunday Times said it had asked McMurdock to comment, and at this stage the correspondent warned of being “very cautious.” He added that the “technical expert” will be necessary to explain the matter. The Sunday Times reported that McMordook has repeatedly refused to reveal the reason for the exit of loans.

McMurdock previously work in Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachas and Standard Chartered Bank, according to Daily Telegraph An article published last year. He decided to run for parliament in May 2024.

In November, it appeared that McMurdock was He was imprisoned to kick his girlfriend over and over again In 2006.

The deputy claimed that he “pushed” his partner when the details of his conviction were revealed in July. But the court records from the ruling obtained by the Times showed that he had been detained in the youth perpetrators institution for 21 days to kick the victim about four times.

The reform, which is at the top of the polls, won five seats in the general elections for the past year, but one of its deputies, Robert Lowe, was expelled from the party after accusing the leader Nigel Farraj from the presence of “Christian qualities” and failed to delegate. Louis is now sitting in Parliament as an independent.

The party won the Rancorn and Hildby elections in May, as the outcome of the deputies was taken shortly to five again.