Vote Leave referred to the police for breaching spending rules

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's Electoral Commission said on Tuesday it was finely denominated in the United States.

Two years since voting 51.9-48.1 to leave the EU, the United Kingdom, the political elite and business remain deeply divided over the European Union on March 29, 2019, and if so how.

While in the referendum, the Electoral Commission's chief executive Claire Bassett told BBC radio that its investigation was focused only on campaign spending violations.

BeLeave, the commission said Vote Leave worked with another campaign, which spent 675,000 pounds ($ 893,500) with Aggregate IQ, a company which used social media data to target voters, under a common plan with Vote Leave.

"We found substantial evidence that the two groups worked on a common plan," said Bob Posner, the commission's director of political finance and regulation.

Posner added to the vote Leave had resisted the investigation of the start and had refused to cooperate.

"Nevertheless, the evidence is clear and substantial," Posner said. "

Vote Leave was fined 61,000 pounds and the Electoral Commission referred David Halsall, the responsible person for Vote Leave, and Darren Grimes, the founder of the BeLeave campaign group, to the police for false statements of campaign spending.

Supporters of Brexit say they are fighting an attempt by the establishment to thwart Brexit.

"The Electoral Commission's report contains a number of false accusations and incorrect assertions that are inaccurate and do not stand up to scrutiny," a vote leave spokesman said in a statement.

"All this suggests that the supposedly impartial Commission is motivated by a political agenda rather than uncovering the facts."

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The commission opened an investigation in November 2017 after it found evidence that the Aggregate IQ vote in the 10 days before the referendum.

The investigation found that the vote was 7,449,079.34 pounds, with its statutory spending limit of 7 million pounds.