https://insidecroydon.com/2024/03/18/scotland-yards-cyber-crime-unit-investigating-croydon-labour/
LABOUR SELECTION SCANDAL: ‘Day of shame’ as Information Commissioner and Met Police confirm investigations into allegations of vote-rigging in Croydon East selection. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES
Croydon Labour is subject to a criminal investigation over allegations of vote-rigging in a parliamentary selection, in what has been described as the latest “day of shame” for the party locally.
Scotland Yard has confirmed to Inside Croydon that its special cyber crime unit is conducting an active investigation into Labour’s Croydon East selection, which was abruptly halted last November when complaints were made that the local party’s membership lists had been tampered with.
Inside Croydon reported last week that the selection process had been re-started, but with one of the four short-listed candidates, Unison union official Joel Bodmer, no longer in the contest. “Bodger” issued a barely credible statement claiming that he had “withdrawn” from the contest in order to spend more time with his family.
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The Labour party in Croydon is formally under criminal investigation by the Metropolitan Police cyber crime unit into allegations of vote-rigging in last autumn’s parliamentary selection for the new Croydon East constituency – a selection cancelled by the party after it could no longer deny the fixing of the result and tampering with local member lists and admitted that one candidate had been given early access to member lists and other candidates eventually received lists strewn with errors.
The data tampering included unauthorised changes of addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of a significant number of members with a vote in the selection.
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