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UKIP Parliamentary candidate charged over nomination paper fraud claims

Via the BBC:

A man due to stand for UKIP in Great Yarmouth at the next general election has been summonsed to faces charges of electoral malpractice.

Norfolk county councillor Matthew Smith, 26, is accused of seven counts of supplying a nomination paper to a returning officer knowing it to contain a forged signature.

He also faces three counts of producing forged nomination papers…

Mr Smith was UKIP’s candidate for the position of Norfolk’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC).

Matthew Smith has been in the news before:

A UKIP county councillor has denied claims he offered confidential Conservative Party data to Labour councillors – as a formal complaint was lodged…

In his letter to the ICO, Councillor Reynolds alleged: “In early 2011 a Mr Matthew Smith… a former employee of the Great Yarmouth Conservative Association, downloaded without permission all the data information held by the Great Yarmouth Conservative Association and then approached the Great Yarmouth Labour Party to offer them this information which they quite rightly refused to accept.”

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