The Charity Commission has escalated its investigation into an Islamic charity’s finances to a statutory inquiry after it failed to file accounts since 2021.

The Hussaini Charitable Trust is part of the regulator’s double defaulter’s class inquiry into charities that have consistently failed to submit their financial information.

The Trust has failed to file documents for the financial year’s ending March 2022 and 2023 and during the regulator’s probe also defaulted for the next year’s accounts.

The latest accounts available on the charity register date back to the year ending March 2021, which show the charity’s income was £120,5050 and it spent £116,060.

The regulator’s review of the charity’s bank statements between 2023 and 2025 also found payments to a connected party.

The charity has been in talks with the regulator over its financial controls since 2021, when the Commission gave trustees advice over trustee payments. The regulator points out that trustees did take action to rectify concerns at the time.

In launching a statutory inquiry into the charity the regulator said it “will seek to establish if the trustees have continued to follow that regulatory advice and are appropriately managing conflicts of interest”.

Also being looked at is whether trustees’ are meeting their legal obligations to prepare and file financial documents and that the charity is operating for the public benefit.

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