PREMIUM Counties add 1,411 'secret' commercial bank accounts Number of commercial bank accounts operated by counties rose to 6,503. Business 41 min ago
PREMIUM Counties’ secret bank accounts hit 6,585 Governors have quietly opened thousands of commercial bank accounts, some of which have been flagged as irregular.
County governments opened 1,411 additional unauthorised commercial bank accounts in the year to June, pushing the total number of irregular accounts up 27.
New disclosures by the Controller of Budget (CoB) shows the number of commercial bank accounts operated by counties rose from 5,092 in June 2025, despite longstanding concerns over the proliferation of accounts outside the approved framework.
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