'A single employee' of one of the UK's largest trade unions is at the centre of a bribery, fraud, money laundering and tax evasion investigation, South Wales Police have said
Until this statement, it had not been clear that tax evasion was among the offences being considered.
In one instance a contractor quoted around £90,000 for proposed work, but was eventually paid £1.2m, an unexplained increase of more than 1300%. Ms Graham separately instructed accountancy firm Grant Thornton to launch an"external forensic investigation" into Unite's affiliated service providers.
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