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NUM Leader Arthur Scargill Accused of Corruption by Daily Mirror

Arthur Scargill is a British Marxist and trade unionist. He was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. In 1990, Scargill was accused in a series of Daily Mirror articles of mishandling money donated for the striking miners during the 1984-5 strike, with many of the sources being those who had previously worked with him in the NUM such as Kim Howells, Jim Parker and Roger Windsor. It was alleged that, of the money donated from Libya, Scargill took £29,000 for his own bridging loan and £25,000 for his home in Yorkshire, but gave only £10,000 to the striking Nottinghamshire miners. In addition, he was alleged of taking £1,000,000 of cash donated by the Soviet Union for the Welsh miners, and placing it in a Dublin bank account for the "International Miners' Organisation" where it stayed until a year after the strike had finished. Director Ken Loach made "The Arthur Legend" Channel 4's Dispatches series. The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. The editor of the Daily Mirror of the time, Roy Greenslade, wrote an article in the Guardian in May 2002 to apologise to Scargill for the false claims about paying off the mortgage and for putting too much trust in Roger Windsor, who at the time had still not repaid the £29,500 that he had taken from the Miners' Welfare Fund and that the Lightman Report had asked that he repay.