An Orthodox charity has been criticised by the Charity Commission after it gave £250,000 for the medical care of a person linked to its original trustees.
The regulator said the trustees of Combined Funds Limited, who made the payments over four years ago, had failed to manage conflicts of interest in an inquiry concluded on Tuesday.
One of the three trustees resigned last year, while new two new, independent trustees joined two years ago.
The current trustees, the commission said, had “retrospectively agreed” that the medical care payments were “in line with the charity’s objects, as the beneficiary was in poverty and required treatment that was not available on NHS.”
