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Ex-aide held over Prince Charles charity ‘fraud’

Health mission: Charles is president of the complementary medicine foundation
12 April 2012

A former aide to Prince Charles has been arrested on suspicion of fraud and money-laundering at Charles's health charity.

The aide was taken into custody following a police inquiry into £300,000 unaccounted for in the books of the Foundation for Integrated Health.

The Prince is president of the organisation, which campaigns for wider use of complementary medicines by the NHS and has received more than £1 million of taxpayers' money.

The 49-year-old former executive was arrested in north-west London yesterday with a woman aged 54.

They were released on police bail until June.

The Met's economic and specialist crime command began investigating the charity four weeks ago.

The charity's auditors discovered the account irregularities, which have caused the foundation to miss a deadline for filing documents to Companies House and the Charity Commission.

Prince Charles is being kept informed.

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