BBC could face fraud office probe over charity cash

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 21 May 2008

The Serious Fraud Office is considering investigating the BBC after it emerged that the corporation had withheld more than £100,000 raised by phone voting that should have been donated to charities such as Children in Need and Comic Relief.

Independent auditors investigating the BBC’s premium rate service discovered that the broadcaster had knowingly diverted £106,000 raised from viewers who had called voting lines after voting had closed, according to a BBC Trust Report issued this month. The fees of about 25p a call, raised between October 2005 and September...

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