British MP Galloway faces new inquiry into Iraq charity

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LONDON (AFP) — MP and anti-Iraq war campaigner George Galloway is to face a fresh investigation into the funding of his campaign against UN sanctions in Iraq, a report said.

The Daily Telegraph said Thursday that the Charity Commission, the regulatory body for not-for-profit organisations in England and Wales, had launched another probe into the now wound-up Mariam Appeal created by the former Labour MP in 1998.

The commission concluded last year that no funds for the appeal, which provided medical aid to Iraqi civilians, had been misused or acquired from improper sources.

But its head of legal services said in May the commission would look at new information from a US Senate sub-committee which has accused Galloway of taking illegal kickbacks from the...