Imran Khand

Imran Khand, New Labour donor

Imran Khand (born 16 July 1964) is a Glasgow-based businessman and entrepreneur who is close to New Labour and has been caught up in sleaze allegations.

According to the account on the Picsel website:

Imran Khand is a highly experienced technology entrepreneur, having established two successful technology companies, prior to co-founding Picsel in 1998. Before that, Imran led a Scottish Government initiative for the development and training of young people and was actively involved in a number of other government and community joint ventures. Imran has a degree in Computer Science from Paisley University.

Biographical Information

Muslim friends - a front organisation?

LABOUR is facing an official inquiry into an alleged front organisation, financed by millionaire Muslim businessmen, which has donated more than £300,000 to the party. The electoral watchdog, which polices political funding, confirmed that it was investigating donations to Labour from a group called Muslim Friends of Labour. Its findings are expected to lead to a full-blown inquiry — the first potential sleaze probe to hit Labour since Gordon Brown became prime minister in June.

Imran Khand, a Glasgow-based entrepreneur, is revealed as a leading financial backer behind Muslim Friends, which funnelled £100,000 a month to Labour between March and June. As his money is paid to Muslim Friends - rather than directly to the Labour party - his identity has until now remained secret. The Electoral Commission is probing whether Labour has broken laws on the disclosure of donations by hiding the true source of its financing. Khand is a close associate of Mohammad Sarwar, the controversial Labour MP who chairs the organisation. Sarwar was embroiled in a vote-rigging scandal in the late 1990s which saw him suspended from the parliamentary Labour party. He was later cleared of the allegations in the High Court.

Khand has recently set up a series of companies with a Pakistani arms salesman and is also funding a British parliamentary inquiry into “tackling terrorism” via another organisation. He has never been publicly named as a Labour donor although Muslim Friends has risen to become the party’s second most generous nontrade union benefactor. It is understood that most Labour Muslim MPs and peers are members. Muslim Friends, which until recently gave only modest amounts, is set up as an “unincorporated association” which does not publish accounts or reveal the source of its funding. It is registered to a PO box address in south London.

Yesterday Sarwar, who is to step down at the next election, refused to reveal who funded the donations. “I will not name names. We have made a decision not to release the information. That is the decision of the board of Muslim Friends of Labour,” he said. He added that the organisation was “very powerful” and was regularly consulted by ministers drawing up policies of interest to the Muslim community. Another senior member of Muslim Friends disclosed that Khand was the leading benefactor. He revealed that Sarwar, himself a multi-millionaire, had also provided funding. One leading Muslim Labour figure said: “I am staggered how much money they are giving suddenly. It started off in the wake of 2001 when Muslims were facing serious challenges, but now it seems to be Sarwar and his friends.”

Last week Khand refused to comment on his donations to Muslim Friends. Yesterday, when asked to justify its decision to accept donations from Muslim Friends, the Labour party said it would take steps to ensure that donors to the group were made public.

Affiliations

• Chairman, International Holdings
• Jabbar Group
• CEO & Co-founder, Picsel Technologies
• Public Interest Foundation (founding director 19 February 2007, resigned 30 June 2008)

Company directorships

Source: Companies House, 26 February 2009.

• DIRECTOR Appointed: 05/08/1998Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC186224Company Name: PICSEL (RESEARCH) LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 05/08/1998Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC186354Company Name: WEB SCOTLAND LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 05/08/1999Occupation: MANAGING DIRECTORCompany Number: SC198687Company Name: THE MUSLIM NETWORK TRUST (SCOTLAND) LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 22/02/2000Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC204155Company Name: INSAN LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 14/05/2001Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC211364Company Name: PICSEL (GROUP) LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 14/05/2001Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC211363Company Name: PICSEL (HOLDINGS) LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 14/05/2001Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC211433Company Name: PICSEL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 13/09/2001Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC222234Company Name: PICSEL TRUSTEES LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 29/03/2006Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: 05679060Company Name: JABBAR OIL AND GAS LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 29/03/2006Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: 05679010Company Name: JABBAR UTILITIES LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 01/04/2006Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC294418Company Name: MX ALLIANCE LIMITED- Active- Proposal to Strike off
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 22/11/2006Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: 05939470Company Name: JABBAR GROUP LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 04/12/2006Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: 05939516Company Name: JABBAR MANAGEMENT LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 07/12/2006Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: 05976841Company Name: JABBAR DEVELOPMENTS (UK) LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 17/01/2007Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC291229Company Name: JABBAR TRADING LIMITED- Active
• SECRETARY Appointed: 18/09/1991 Resigned: 08/10/1997Occupation: Company Number: SC134099Company Name: ETHNIC MINORITIES LAW CENTRE- Active
• SECRETARY Appointed: 22/02/2000 Resigned: 30/09/2004Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC204155Company Name: INSAN LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 18/09/1991 Resigned: 08/10/1997Occupation: UNEMPLOYEDCompany Number: SC134099Company Name: ETHNIC MINORITIES LAW CENTRE- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 23/10/1997 Resigned: 25/11/2000Occupation: PROJECT DIRECTORCompany Number: 02967126Company Name: YOUTH ACCESS- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 05/10/1999 Resigned: 01/03/2001Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC200547Company Name: BLACK & ETHNIC MINORITY INFRASTRUCTURE SCOTLAND LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 19/02/2007 Resigned: 23/05/2008Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: 06115626Company Name: PUBLIC INTEREST FOUNDATION LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 04/04/2008 Resigned: 19/01/2009Occupation: COMPANY DIRECTORCompany Number: 04635699Company Name: EUROPEAN NUTRIPHARM LIMITED- Active
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 04/04/2008 Resigned: 19/01/2009Occupation: COMPANY DIRECTORCompany Number: 03927313Company Name: THE DOVE CLINIC LIMITED- Active
• SECRETARY Appointed: 22/02/2000 Resigned: 10/06/2005 Dissolved: 09/08/2007Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC204156Company Name: MUSAFFIR LIMITED- Dissolved
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 09/07/1992 Dissolved: 17/09/2004Occupation: COMPANY SECRETARYCompany Number: SC139248Company Name: ALTERNATIVE PUBLISHING & COMMUNICATIONS BUREAU LIMITED- Dissolved
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 12/08/1996 Resigned: 08/02/2002 Dissolved: 18/09/2003Occupation: COMPANY DIRECTORCompany Number: SC167598Company Name: T W F (SCOTLAND) LIMITED- Dissolved
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 14/12/1999 Dissolved: 10/10/2008Occupation: COMPANY DIRECTORCompany Number: SC180961Company Name: SCOTQUEST LIMITED- Dissolved
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 22/02/2000 Resigned: 10/06/2005 Dissolved: 09/08/2007Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: SC204156Company Name: MUSAFFIR LIMITED- Dissolved
• DIRECTOR Appointed: 29/03/2006 Dissolved: 30/04/2008Occupation: DIRECTORCompany Number: 05679064Company Name: JABBAR DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED- Dissolved

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