From British daily The Independent:
Cash-for-honours: Blair aides await fate as inquiry endsBy Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent
Published: 21 April 2007
Police are calling for charges to be brought against two of Tony Blair’s closest allies in a file handed to prosecutors following the “cash-for-honours” investigation.
It is understood that Lord Levy [see here], the Labour Party chief fundraiser, and No 10’s director of government relations, Ruth Turner, have been singled out in the 216-page dossier.
A further 6,300 pages of supporting documents have also been sent by the Metropolitan Police to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
It follows a 13-month inquiry by Scotland Yard into the alleged awarding of peerages to Labour-supporting businessmen in return for secret loans.
The investigation has cast a shadow over Mr Blair’s final months in power and threatens to blight Labour’s campaign for the 3 May council elections in England, Scotland and Wales.
