It became known that nearly £100,000 of donations to the UK Party of Liberal Democrats has come from the company Alpha Healthcare – a company owned by Indian businessmen. This is more than half the cash that the Party has taken in major donations since the beginning of the election campaign.
Alpha Healthcare is controlled by Harberry Investments, which is registered in the British Virgin Islands, and its main shareholders are Indian businessmen Bhanu and Dhruv Choudrie. They are believed to have ‘non-domicile’ status; at the same time, earlier this year the Liberal Democrates strongly criticized donations to the Tories by non-domicile Lord Ashcroft, with his Belize companies, and emphasized their difference from the Tories.