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Watchdog questions Government grant to Islamic group with SNP link
The Scottish Government's decision to award more than £400,000 to an Islamic group run by an SNP activist was last night branded "unusual" by a senior figure in the body which oversees voluntary groups.Stephen Maxwell, a director of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), said First Minister Alex Salmond had been exposed to attack because of the presence of SNP activists in the group.
And Maxwell – himself a senior SNP figure – suggested the grants should have been postponed until legal formalities at the Scottish Islamic Foundation (SIF) had been completed.
The newly-formed SIF is currently being run by Osama Saeed, the SNP's parliamentary candidate for the Glasgow Central constituency. The organisation's board also includes SNP activists and members of Saeed's family. Documents creating the group as a company were signed in the SNP's headquarters in Glasgow.
Full story at Scotland on Sunday.
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