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Labour MP Apsana Begum fights ‘malicious’ allegations of housing fraud

LABOUR MP Apsana Begum has vowed that charges of housing fraud brought against her will be “vigorously contested.”

The MP for Poplar and Limehouse is accused of three offences in relation to how she was allocated her council house on the Isle of Dogs in east London. 

The charges, which the 30-year-old described as “malicious and false,” concern the period between January 18 2013 and March 31 2016. 

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