Foreign Student Gave Pounds 3k to Alan Johnson's Deputy Leadership Campaign but Amazingly Confesses to Us: I Don't Know Him ; Exclusive Labour in New Donor Scandal .. And Guess What, It Wasn't Registered in Time

Sunday Mirror › January 27, 2008

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A PENNILESS foreigner was used as a front to donate pounds 3,000 to Alan Johnson's campaign for Labour deputy leader.

But immigrant Waseem Siddiqui, 50, said he does not even know who Health Secretary Mr Johnson is.

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Foreign Student Gave Pounds 3k to Alan Johnson's Deputy Leadership Campaign but Amazingly Confesses to Us: I Don't Know Him ; Exclusive Labour in New Donor Scandal .. And Guess What, It Wasn't Registered in Time

And he claimed he had no idea who the cash was for - alleging his brother, a Labour official, asked him to write a blank cheque.

The extraordinary revelation takes Labour's donorgate scandal to a new low and will cause huge embarrassment to Mr Johnson.

It echoes the scandal over David Abrahams, who funnelled cash to Labour using other people's names.

And it comes in ...

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