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483:, notwithstanding his links to Asil Nadir who, in August 2012 was convicted of theft amounting to £29m. In the 1990s, when a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, Mates expressed his support for Nadir by sending him a watch inscribed with the words "don't let the buggers get you down" – a reference to an ongoing investigation into Nadir's fraudulent financial activities by British authorities. In August 2012 Nadir was found guilty at the
521:. The former lawyer wrote to the county's Chief Constable alleging that Mates breached the 2006 Fraud Act by giving his address as a house where he rents rooms in Winchester. Parallel to this, Hampshire police confirmed two complaints of alleged racist language in Mates' Election Statement were passed to the Thames Valley Police for investigation.
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1146:"CPS apologises to Michael Mates over PCC election claims"
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