An SNP MP accepted flights and luxurious lodging from an Indian jewelry agency later accused of a multi-million-pound gold fraud.
Martyn Day took the donation for him and his spouse price £650 from Goodwin Jewellers in Mumbai to attend an occasion whereas on vacation.
Months later the agency’s house owners have been accused of leaving a whole bunch of buyers out of pocket after shops throughout India closed with out warning.
Sunilkumar and Sudheerkumar Akkarakaran – who additionally opened a UK department of their agency – have been arrested and a bail software was refused in December 2020.
A Labour supply mentioned: “That is yet one more instance of an SNP MP accepting hospitality from questionable sources. It's unclear what Mr Day’s constituents can have gained from his jolly in India.”
Goodwin Jewellers paid for the Linlithgow MP to fly from Mumbai to Trivandrum in addition to offering lodging in Mumbai for Day and his spouse from August 18 to 21, 2018. Day’s register of pursuits states: “This was accepted as a part of a detour on a household vacation, the aim of which was to debate with the donor, different companies and volunteers enterprise alternatives within the UK and charitable actions referring to the Kerala flooding.”
In 2019, Goodwin Jewellers shut its community of shops, leaving clients within the lurch. Lots of of individuals have been reported to have ploughed about £3million into its gold funding scheme.
Corporations Home information present the Akkarakaran brothers based a Goodwin Jewellers within the UK in 2018 however the agency was dissolved in January final 12 months. There is no such thing as a connection between Goodwin Jewellers in Mumbai and Goodwins Jewelry in Edinburgh.
Day, 51, additionally travelled to Qatar on an £8000 junket in 2021, paid for by the Arab state’s royal household. He mentioned this was to debate the rights of World Cup employees and Qatar’s political response to the Afghanistan disaster.
In 2016, he accepted a £4600 journey to the Maldives.
A spokesman for Day mentioned: “Martyn has undertaken charitable work to help the victims of the Kerala floods. This go to enabled him to see the flood reduction efforts and was coated by the media and register.”
Final week we revealed how SNP MP Angus MacNeil went on two junkets to controversial World Cup host Qatar.