Alan FerrierDec 21
France just jailed its former president for illegally funding his 2007 presidential campaign.
https://news.sky.com/story/too-late-to-investigate-farage-election-expenses-essex-police-say-13485447
Too late to investigate Farage election expenses, Essex Police say

Allegations that Nigel Farage broke spending rules happened more than a year ago and can't be probed, the force has said. Election financing crimes must be reported within a year

Sky
Show threadBob ThomsonDec 21
@alanferrier at least there won’t be a day to day diary book of Nige’s time behind bars like Sarko’s.
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@bobthomson70 @alanferrier

UK has a statute of limitations for many offences, France does not - the French law did also mean that organisers of a relatively harmless (but noisy) outdoor rave in the late 1990s got nicked in the 2010s and fined tens of thousands of Euros (and some also served jail time)

Dec 21 at 4:46pmWeb
Show threadBob ThomsonDec 21

@vfrmedia @alanferrier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitation_periods_in_the_United_Kingdom

Limitation periods in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

Show threadBob ThomsonDec 21
@vfrmedia @alanferrier to me it would make more sense to have a longer period than a year. Maybe more like 5 years.