Nathan Gill: Former Reform UK leader in Wales charged with bribery after counter terror probe | Politics News

The previous chief of Reform UK in Wales has been charged with bribery after an investigation by counter terrorism police.

Nathan Gill, 51, was charged with one depend of conspiracy to commit bribery, beneath the Legal Legislation Act 1977, and with eight counts of bribery, beneath the Bribery Act, 2010, stated the Metropolitan Police.

Gill is because of seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket on Monday.

The Met Police stated: “The investigation has been led by detectives from the Met’s Counter-Terrorism Command and a person was beforehand interviewed beneath warning on 3 March 2022 in reference to bribery allegations.

“Additional enquiries have been carried out by officers and after authorisation by the Crown Prosecution Service Counter-Terrorism Division, the person was subsequently charged as above.”

He was beforehand a member of the UK Independence Social gathering (UKIP), main the Welsh wing of the get together between 2014 and 2016.

Gill was a member of the Senedd between 2016 and 2017, and a member of the European Parliament between 2014 and 2020.

He left UKIP in 2019, and the identical yr he joined Nigel Farage’s Brexit Social gathering – later Reform UK – and was elected as a Brexit Social gathering MEP.

Gill was confirmed as chief of Reform UK Wales in 2021 forward of Senedd elections, however studies counsel he left the get together months later when he didn’t win a seat.

A spokesperson for Reform UK Wales confirmed Gill was not a member, and stated the get together wouldn’t be commenting.