Imran Khand

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: 05/08/1998 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC186224 Company Name: PICSEL (RESEARCH) LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 05/08/1998 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC186354 Company Name: WEB SCOTLAND LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 05/08/1999 Occupation: MANAGING DIRECTOR Company Number: SC198687 Company Name: THE MUSLIM NETWORK TRUST (SCOTLAND) LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 22/02/2000 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC204155 Company Name: INSAN LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 14/05/2001 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC211364 Company Name: PICSEL (GROUP) LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 14/05/2001 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC211363 Company Name: PICSEL (HOLDINGS) LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 14/05/2001 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC211433 Company Name: PICSEL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 13/09/2001 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC222234 Company Name: PICSEL TRUSTEES LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 29/03/2006 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: 05679060 Company Name: JABBAR OIL AND GAS LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 29/03/2006 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: 05679010 Company Name: JABBAR UTILITIES LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 01/04/2006 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC294418 Company Name: MX ALLIANCE LIMITED - Active- Proposal to Strike off

DIRECTOR Appointed: 22/11/2006 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: 05939470 Company Name: JABBAR GROUP LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 04/12/2006 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: 05939516 Company Name: JABBAR MANAGEMENT LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 07/12/2006 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: 05976841 Company Name: JABBAR DEVELOPMENTS (UK) LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 17/01/2007 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC291229 Company Name: JABBAR TRADING LIMITED - Active

SECRETARY Appointed: 18/09/1991 Resigned: 08/10/1997 Occupation: Company Number: SC134099 Company Name: ETHNIC MINORITIES LAW CENTRE - Active

SECRETARY Appointed: 22/02/2000 Resigned: 30/09/2004 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC204155 Company Name: INSAN LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 18/09/1991 Resigned: 08/10/1997 Occupation: UNEMPLOYED Company Number: SC134099 Company Name: ETHNIC MINORITIES LAW CENTRE - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 23/10/1997 Resigned: 25/11/2000 Occupation: PROJECT DIRECTOR Company Number: 02967126 Company Name: YOUTH ACCESS - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 05/10/1999 Resigned: 01/03/2001 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC200547 Company Name: BLACK & ETHNIC MINORITY INFRASTRUCTURE SCOTLAND LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 19/02/2007 Resigned: 23/05/2008 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: 06115626 Company Name: PUBLIC INTEREST FOUNDATION LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 04/04/2008 Resigned: 19/01/2009 Occupation: COMPANY DIRECTOR Company Number: 04635699 Company Name: EUROPEAN NUTRIPHARM LIMITED - Active

DIRECTOR Appointed: 04/04/2008 Resigned: 19/01/2009 Occupation: COMPANY DIRECTOR Company Number: 03927313 Company Name: THE DOVE CLINIC LIMITED - Active

SECRETARY Appointed: 22/02/2000 Resigned: 10/06/2005 Dissolved: 09/08/2007 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC204156 Company Name: MUSAFFIR LIMITED - Dissolved

DIRECTOR Appointed: 09/07/1992 Dissolved: 17/09/2004 Occupation: COMPANY SECRETARY Company Number: SC139248 Company Name: ALTERNATIVE PUBLISHING & COMMUNICATIONS BUREAU LIMITED - Dissolved

DIRECTOR Appointed: 12/08/1996 Resigned: 08/02/2002 Dissolved: 18/09/2003 Occupation: COMPANY DIRECTOR Company Number: SC167598 Company Name: T W F (SCOTLAND) LIMITED - Dissolved

DIRECTOR Appointed: 14/12/1999 Dissolved: 10/10/2008 Occupation: COMPANY DIRECTOR Company Number: SC180961 Company Name: SCOTQUEST LIMITED - Dissolved

DIRECTOR Appointed: 22/02/2000 Resigned: 10/06/2005 Dissolved: 09/08/2007 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: SC204156 Company Name: MUSAFFIR LIMITED - Dissolved

DIRECTOR Appointed: 29/03/2006 Dissolved: 30/04/2008 Occupation: DIRECTOR Company Number: 05679064 Company Name: JABBAR DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED - Dissolved

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