Colney Heath Parish Council uncovered financial irregularities totalling over £250,000.
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More than a quarter of a million pounds was illegally paid out of parish council coffers over the course of a decade, it has been revealed.
Colney Heath Parish Council identified over £250,000 had been paid in
ultra vires payments during the late John Dean s tenure as parish clerk.
Ultra vires is an act which requires legal authority but is done without this being granted, and these payments are termed invalid because they are not approved by the council.
A catalogue of financial misdemeanours was uncovered between September and December 2015 by an interim parish clerk following Mr Dean s death earlier that year, and Herts police were called in to investigate the following January.