Charity condemned over sham weddings

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector Online, 15 June 2007

Charities have been urged to keep a tight rein over the use of their properties after the former minister of a Christian charity was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence for conducting sham weddings.

The Charity Commission this week published an inquiry report into the Celestial Church of Christ, based in Islington, north London, after the conviction of clergyman Adeola Magbagbeola for conspiracy to defraud in February. Magbagbeola was sacked from his position by the charity after conducting at least 15 bogus marriages in...

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