UK broadcasting regulator to investigate Muslim TV channels

This week's edition of the Sunday Express reports that UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom is to carry out an investigation into a number of British Muslim TV stations that have been helping to raise vast sums of money for overseas mosques and madrassas.

Some of the TV channels under the spotlight are linked to a convicted fraudster.

The satellite stations have been airing all night “fundathon” appeals during the current Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Much of the money is being raised by organisations in Pakistan and Bangladesh that have often just registered as UK charities.

The channels are all available on the Sky satellite platform and broadcast to the large Muslim Bangladeshi diaspora throughout Europe. They include Channel S, ATN Bangla, Bangla TV and Iqra TV.

There is no suggestion that any channel or charities broadcasting appeals are involved with terrorist activity.

According to Ofcom, licences for all channels are held by Channel S Global Ltd, a company founded by, and still run from, the east London offices of Mohammed Ferdhaus, a 36-year-old businessman sentenced in August last year to 18 months in jail for an insurance fraud.

Read the full story in the Sunday Express

Source: Media Network