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UK PM Johnson will not face criminal action over links to U.S. businesswoman

By Michael Holden

 

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FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen at 10 Downing Street, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 13, 2020. REUTERS/John Sibley

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not face criminal action following allegations of misconduct over his relationship with a U.S tech entrepreneur but he might have had an intimate relationship with her, the police watchdog said on Thursday.

 

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) launched an investigation last September following a newspaper report that Johnson, when mayor of London, had failed to disclose his personal links to Jennifer Arcuri, who received thousands of pounds in public funding and places on official trade trips.

 

Johnson denied any wrongdoing, saying everything was done with full propriety and that there was no interest to declare.

 

The IOPC’s Director General Michael Lockwood said there was no evidence to indicate Johnson influenced any payments to Arcuri or influenced her participation in trade missions.

 

But Lockwood said “there was evidence to suggest that those officers making decisions about sponsorship monies and attendance on trade missions thought that there was a close relationship between Mr Johnson and Ms Arcuri, and this influenced their decision-making”.

 

Johnson’s spokesman welcomed the fact that “this politically motivated complaint had been thrown out”, saying it was a waste of police time.

 

“Such vexatious claims of impropriety in office were untrue and unfounded,” the spokesman said.

 

The matter was referred to the watchdog because Johnson was head of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, a role equivalent to a police commissioner, during his 2008-2016 term as mayor.

 

The Greater London Authority said it had alerted the IOPC because Innotech, Arcuri’s then company, had received 11,500 pounds ($14,000) from London & Partners, the mayor’s promotional agency, for two events in 2013 and 2014.

 

She attended a trade mission to Singapore and Malaysia in 2014 through Playbox, one of her companies, even though an initial application through Innotech had been declined.

 

Last October, the government’s Internal Audit Agency ruled a decision to award a 100,000 pound grant to a company run by Arcuri was appropriate.

 

Arcuri gave a number of TV interviews after the allegations came to light, saying she and Johnson had enjoyed a “very special relationship”, having bonded over classical literature, but said he had never shown her any favouritism.

 

She repeatedly refused to say whether she had had an affair with Johnson but said he had cast her aside like “some gremlin” after the reports surfaced.

 

“Our review established there was a close association between Mr Johnson and Ms Arcuri and there may have been an intimate relationship,” the IOPC said.

 

It said it would have been wise for Johnson to have declared this as a conflict of interest and might be a breach of the GLA’s Code of Conduct.

 

The London Assembly said it would continue its investigation into Johnson’s conduct.

 

“My message to the prime minister is that this issue isn’t going away just yet,” Assembly member Len Duvall said.

 

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-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-05-21
 
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9 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

“Our review established there was a close association between Mr Johnson and Ms Arcuri and there may have been an intimate relationship,” the IOPC said.

Any forensic evidence soaked with semen on blue coat? 

Reminds me of Christine Keeler.

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A post and a reply importing a none medical condition, term from the US forum has been removed. This is trolling so please don't do it.unless you are in need of a holiday.

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13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Arcuri gave a number of TV interviews after the allegations came to light, saying she and Johnson had enjoyed a “very special relationship”, having bonded over classical literature, but said he had never shown her any favouritism

however, he has shown her his Johnson.

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21 minutes ago, evadgib said:

Boris should refer this particular piece of guesswork to the appropriate authorities as it's disclosure is highly likely to have breached a number of regulations purely for political gain.

 

Indeed. Of course Reuters aren't exactly politically unbiased. And some of their "sources" are dodgy, maybe even imagined. 

 

I can't imagine any officer or official report including such comments.

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I thought that they have always claimed that when he was London Mayor, he never helped her with her business interests. Instead, whenever he visited her privately, it was so that she could give him some computer technology lessons. 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7500453/Ex-model-said-Boris-Johnson-came-round-technology-lessons.html

 

In other words, I guess, she was showing him how to put his (not so) floppy disk into her hard drive. But as we all know, it’s always Johnson, and not his critics, who talks “an inverted pyramid of piffle”.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-326045/Boris-sacked-lying-affair.html

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6145051/Ex-mistress-Petronella-Wyatt-reveals-rare-insight-Boris-Johnson.html

 

 

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51 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Nothing criminal, according to the article, although he would have been wise to declare the conflict of interest. 

 

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48 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

You mean rather than trying to present possible maybes that you like as facts, like you're doing?

There you're wrong, that's not what I'm doing. I am doing the same as you: reaching the conclusion that "he would have been wise to declare the conflict of interest. ".

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7 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Imagine if it was discovered that Sadiq Khan had a mistress and that he gave her £120,000 of taxpayers money - this board would be in meltdown. 

Not til 2030 though eh?

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The  BRITISH VERSION of ,lets throw what ever against the wall and see if it's gotcha! The guy is tryin to take care of the sovereignty of his gov! The news is not the news anymore ,is it!

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Many a true word.....

 

Britain knew Johnson would never deceive them over affair with a blonde

"Margaret Gerving said: “I knew it was all lies when they said he had an inappropriate sexual relationship. Not Boris, I said. 

“Now he’s been exonerated all those dirty people with their minds in the gutter will finally have to accept he was only having IT lessons from that lovely lady without a sniff of impropriety. 

“There’s just no way he would allow his base lusts to overwhelm his sense of civic duty. He gave her those grants because of her undoubted technological brilliance. Mark my words, she’ll be the next Steve Jobs."

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