The £105 million council con: Suncream for traffic wardens? Sexy lingerie? How officials abuse credit cards at YOUR expense

‘Shameless council officials spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash on frivolous items during a £105 million credit card splurge, an investigation by The Mail on Sunday can reveal today.
Fancy dress wigs, hand-painted bongos and even clothes from a lingerie website are among the astonishing items bought using Government Procurement Cards, which are supposed to enable key members of staff to purchase essential items.
Using Freedom of Information requests to hundreds of councils we uncovered how suncream for traffic wardens, a robot that speaks Dutch and hat cleaning services were part of a catalogue of waste.’
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