UK: House of Commons Standards Body Says Conservative MP For Windsor, Adam Afriyie, To Slow To Declare His Position With Medical Cannabis Company
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We’ve done a bit of digging and as always with Tory ministers and cannabis it gets very complicated with a minimal paper trail . Here’s the initial media report from the Times (UK). as well as a couple of other local media reports from Slough & Windsor + what we could find online via Elite’s website and Linked In Accounts. We would suggest there is more to come out in the wash.   A Conservative MP tried to cover up his failure to register a new job in time, in an effort to avoid public criticism. Adam Afriyie, the MP for Windsor, has been reprimanded by the Commons standards body for being too slow to declare the position with a medicinal cannabis company. The MP neglected to record his new role with Elite Growth, which distributes the drug for medical use, in the register of members’ financial interests for several months, as revealed by The Times last December. Here’s a little more about the company via CEO and founder.. Liam McGreevy’s Linked In Page Also see https://www.linkedin.com/company/elite-growth/ The parliamentary commissioner for standards has now found that Afriyie breached paragraph 14 of the code of conduct for MPs, which states that they should declare their interests. It has also emerged that Afriyie tried to get the registrar,…. Read more at the Times (UK) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/adam-afriyie-too-slow-to-declare-job-with-cannabis-firm-tkvgzgh0s The local newspaper the Windsor Observer provides more detail WINDSOR’S MP’s potential failure to declare his involvement with a medical marijuana distribution company is being investigated, a national newspaper reported. According to The Times, Tory MP Adam Afriyie is being investigated by the parliamentary commissioner for standards for failing to declare his chairmanship at a medical cannabis distribution firm called Elite Growth in December. It was reported, on January 31 by the national newspaper, that Windsor’s long-serving representative has lobbied government…

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