Founder Dan Houston
Scandal-hit aid charity gave just 13p in every pound to charity
A controversial charity has been declared bankrupt after spending just 13p in every pound on charitable activities.
Uddingston-based Scotia Aid Sierra Leone was reported to the charity regulator in 2015 by a whistleblowing trustee who complained to authorities that directors were paying themselves huge fees at the expense of the cause they were meant to support.
Last year the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) launched an inquiry into the – organisation, and placed an interim freezing the charitys bank accounts.
It led to directors Kieran Kelly and Alan Johnston being barred from running any charity for life in J…
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