reform英国党已就外国捐款禁令问题，经内部调查后未认定两名高级官员违反法律，尽管该事仍在警方调查之中。
Reform UK has cleared two senior officials of breaking laws that ban foreign donations, despite the matter remaining under police investigation.
在该党法律秘书兼总干事丹·朱克斯（Dan Jukes）的内部调查后，尼格尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）的发言顾问朱克斯和政策主管詹姆斯·奥尔（James Orr）均未被认定违反资金规则。
After an internal inquiry by the party’s legal secretary and general secretary, Dan Jukes, Nigel Farage’s press adviser, and James Orr, its head of policy, were not found to have breached funding rules.
党内人士表示，他们计划对这家进行卧底报道的组织Verbatim采取法律行动。该组织的录像片段曾被英国广播公司新闻频道（Channel 4 News）播出，引发了此次调查。
Party sources said they intend to pursue legal action against the undercover reporting group, Verbatim, whose footage that led to the investigation was broadcast by Channel 4 News. Police have been investigating potential offences under electoral law since the broadcast in early September, saying they would widen an existing special inquiry relating to donations made to Reform.
自9月初播出以来，警方一直在调查可能违反选举法的行为，表示将扩大对 reform党捐款事宜的现有特别调查。朱克斯和奥尔将在警方调查进行期间仍被党方留置。
Jukes and Orr will remain suspended by the party while the police inquiry is ongoing. Jukes and Orr were filmed talking about a scheme in which a US donor paid for three polls with favourable narratives for Reform, costing more than £30,000.
朱克斯和奥尔在被拍摄时讨论了一项计划，即一名美国捐款人资助超过3万英 sterling的三次民意调查，调查内容对 reform党持有有利的叙述。根据政治资金法，来自海外的捐款是不被允许的。
Donations from overseas sources are not allowed under political funding laws. Jukes also discussed the idea of the US donor giving £500,000 to Reform through his UK-based son.
朱克斯还讨论了美国捐款人通过其在英国的儿子向 reform党捐赠50万英镑的想法。而那些他们认为是父子关系的人其实是卧底记者。
The men they thought were father and son were undercover reporters. Farage later met the undercover reporters as would-be donors over lunch in Clacton, and did not object when the idea of the scheme was explained to him.
法拉奇后来在克莱顿（Clacton）与这些卧底记者共进午餐，假装成潜在捐款人，并在听到该计划介绍时并未提出异议。他事后称自己当时并未在听。
He later said he had not been listening. Reform has published a 17-page internal report in which it said it did not excuse the “foolish” way in which Jukes and Orr discussed donations with an overseas donor.
reform党发布了一份17页的内部报告，表示他们并不为朱克斯和奥尔以愚蠢的方式与海外捐款人讨论捐款问题辩解。但他们指出，该党并未委托美国捐款人支付3万英镎的民意调查，因为朱克斯是一名承包商而非党员。
But it said the party had not commissioned the £30,000 polling from the US donor, as Jukes was a contractor rather than a staff member. Orr was recorded suggesting that the US businessman could pay for opinion polling to help with the party’s campaigns, which would “technically be a donation in kind” but “the reality is we could easily get away with it”.
奥尔被录音中建议称，美国商人可以资助民意调查以帮助党的活动，这在技术上将构成“实物捐款”，但“现实情况是我们轻而易举就能逃之夭亡”。
However, the internal report found that because Reform did not make any payment for the polls or directly arrange for them to be carried out, “the payments made to JL Partners were therefore not donations to Reform UK within the meaning of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000”.
然而，内部报告发现，由于英国改革党没有为民意调查支付任何费用，也没有直接安排进行这些调查，“因此，向JL Partners支付的款项不属于《2000年政党、选举和全民公决法》所指的对英国改革党的捐赠”。
In relation to discussions about the £500,000, which was never handed over, the report said it found no evidence that Orr or Jukes knowingly entered into or acted in furtherance of an arrangement to facilitate an impermissible donation.
关于那笔从未移交的50万元资金的讨论，报告称，没有发现任何证据表明奥尔或朱克斯明知故犯地达成或参与了一项旨在促成违规捐赠的安排。
The report said: “Nothing was agreed, no donations were made and no formal position was presented to the party’s finance team, and nothing was accepted. The party’s procedures for checking the identity of a donor and the source of funds were never engaged, because nothing reached them.”
报告称：“没有任何协议达成，没有进行任何捐赠，也没有向该党的财务团队提交正式职位申请，没有任何东西被接受。该党核实捐赠者身份和资金来源的程序从未启动，因为没有任何东西送到他们面前。”奥尔此前还曾对卧底记者表示：“如果你们有相当大的机会直接给出一笔……五位数或六位数的金额，那么我们可以和奈杰尔共进午餐。”报告称“这些措辞是不明智的”，但得出结论认为“它们并非一个标价”。
Orr had also told the undercover reporter: “If there’s a non-trivial chance of you guys directly giving a … five or six-figure sum, then we could do a lunch with Nigel.”The report said “the words used were unwise” but concluded that “they were not a price”. It also dismissed an incident in which Jukes discussed other purported foreign donors who had given money through their children, which would be against the rules.
报告还驳回了一起事件：朱克斯曾讨论过其他声称通过子女捐款的所谓外国捐赠者，这违反了相关规则。朱克斯坚称“他纯粹是为了不破坏对话而虚构了情况”，这只是“毫无根据的愚蠢、松散的言论”。
Jukes insisted “he simply invented circumstances for the purposes of not derailing the conversation” and that it was “foolish, loose talk” without foundation. The investigation “found no basis for the suggestion that any supporter of the party has given in the way described”.
调查“没有发现任何证据支持‘该党任何支持者以所述方式进行了捐赠’的说法”。由于这一事件（它给英国改革党9月初的大会蒙上了阴影），该党表示将引入新规则：拟议的捐赠必须以书面形式通知该党司库办公室，并且在完成背景调查之前，不得与拟议的捐赠者举行任何会面。
As a result of the episode, which overshadowed Reform’s conference in early September, the party said it would bring in rules that the party treasurer’s office must be informed in writing of proposed donations and that no meetings with proposed donors should take place until background checks had been carried out. A Reform spokesperson said: “Following the allegations raised by Verbatim Investigations and Channel 4 on 3 September, Reform UK commissioned a comprehensive internal investigation.
改革党发言人表示：“继Verbatim Investigations和Channel 4于9月3日提出指控后，改革英国党委托开展了一项全面的内部调查。
“The investigation examined all relevant evidence, including witness interviews, documentary records and electronic communications.
“此次调查审查了所有相关证据，包括证人访谈、文件记录以及电子通信内容。
“Having concluded the review, the investigation found no evidence that any laws were broken. Reform UK takes its obligations on governance and conduct extremely seriously.
“在完成审查后，调查未发现任何违反法律的行为。改革英国党对治理和行为规范方面的义务极为重视。
“We consider that the production company – Verbatim – acted unlawfully and will be taking the appropriate legal action in due course.”
“我们认为，制作公司Verbatim的行为违法，并将在适当时候采取相应的法律行动。”Jukes向率先报道此次内部调查结果《每日电讯报》表示：“我欢迎此次调查的结论，尤其重要的是，调查认定我并未违法，这一点我一直坚持。
Jukes told the Telegraph, which first reported the findings of the internal investigation: “I welcome the finding of this investigation, which crucially has found I did not break the law, as I have maintained from the outset. “I am also considering all appropriate legal remedies in relation to any false and damaging statements made about me.
“同时，我还在考虑针对任何关于我的虚假且具损害性的言论，采取所有适当的法律救济措施。“目前，我将继续暂时退出政坛，以追求其他机会。”
“For now, I will continue to take a break from politics to pursue other opportunities.”