(Thread - source: Channel 4) - Whistle-blower claims in the Brexit campaign people were "lied to” and that the EU Referendum “wasn't legitimate." He says Vote Leave broke the law and exceeded legal spending limits. There are also links to Cambridge Analytica.
Vote Leave was only allowed to spend £7m on its campaign. But there were scores of other separate campaign groups who could each spend up to £700,000, if they registered as permitted participants. Spending by these groups had to remain independent of the main campaigns.
Whistleblower tells C4 he was a Vote Leave volunteer. But Stephen Parkinson (Theresa May's Political Secretary) assigned him to another Brexit group called BeLeave. BeLeave was based inside the Vote Leave headquarters.
He says there was no time where anything BeLeave did didn’t go through Parkinson. In the last ten days of the campaign, Vote Leave donated a total of £625,000 to Darren Grimes, BeLeave's founder.
The money went directly to Canadian data firm Aggregate IQ (AIQ). Channel 4 News has seen multiple links between AIQ and Cambridge Analytica's parent company SCL. There are also claims Grimes was not independent of Vote Leave and was not in control of how the money was spent.
Shahmir Sanni says along with two others he went to the Electoral Commission as he believes Grimes and BeLeave were used by Vote Leave to get around limits on how much they could legally spend. If true, they could have overspent by almost ten per cent.
He has also accused Parkinson, Theresa May's Political Secretary, as "outing" him as being gay, putting his family in Pakistan in danger as a result of his whistleblowing. They were in a relationship for 18 months.
Stephen Parkinson issued a “personal statement” to Channel 4 News: 
Darren Grimes denies all the allegations and a solicitor for Vote Leave told Channel 4 News this:
