Sinn Fein Will Be Penalized Over Robbery
From Times Wire Reports
Britain will impose financial penalties worth hundreds of thousands of dollars on Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party, for the IRA’s alleged robbery of a Belfast bank and other crimes in Northern Ireland, the government said.
Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy said Sinn Fein’s four elected members of the House of Commons would lose their right to claim expenses, a benefit worth more than $750,000 annually.
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