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Reform UK Deputy leader Richard Tice has written to the boss of the National Crime Agency (NCA) asking if he will investigate whether the body is responsible for leaking his private financial information to the media.<\/b><\/p>\n
Payments made to his organisations were flagged to the NCA as part of its Suspicious Activity Reports programme, something Tice says he only became aware of when he was contacted by the Guardian newspaper.<\/p>\n
Reform UK believe the paper’s information is likely to have come from the NCA.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the agency said “The NCA does not confirm or deny the receipt of suspicious activity reports (SARs), nor comment on how any SAR is used. <\/p>\n
“SARs are confidential and breaching that confidentiality risks committing a tipping off offence under the Proceeds of Crime Act.”<\/p>\n
As first reported by the Telegraph,, external<\/span><\/a> Tice’s company Tisun Investment received a loan of \u00a380,000 from George Cottrell, a close ally of Reform leader Nigel Farage, in late 2024.<\/p>\n A think tank owned by Tice, called Britain Means Business, also received a \u00a31m donation from Cotrell’s mother Fiona in June 2024.<\/p>\n