"Donorgate - police to press charges"

This news cheered up Harry Haddock no end.

What puzzles me is the assumption that only Peter Watt is in the frame. Schedule 20 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 makes it quite clear that there are criminal penalties under s61(1) for facilitating making impermissible donations, s61(2)(a) knowingly giving treasurer false information, s61(2)(b) withholding information from treasurer with intent to deceive, (in other words, just about everybody even vaguely involved) as well as under s66(5), in cases where the treasurer knowingly or recklessly makes a false donations report.

Hmm.