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CPS considers expenses prosecutions

Updated on 23 November 2009

By Channel 4 News

The prosecutions against MPs and peers over their expenses are being considered, after the police pass their files to the Crown Prosecution Service. Gary Gibbon reports live.

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A guessing game is underway in Westminster tonight after Scotland Yard revealed that it has referred four cases in the parliamentary expenses scandal to the CPS.

The four have not been named but are understood to involve both MPs and peers.

It is now up to the CPS to decide whether to press charges against the four.

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