By Tamara Cohen PUBLISHED: 18:55 EST, 2 August 2013 | UPDATED: 19:47 EST, 2 August 2013 Comic Relief has called in watchdogs to investigate claims that up to £250,000 donated by the British public to help poor Africans may not have been used for charity. A Ugandan charity is said to have been given £450,000 for health and education projects following Comic Relief’s telethon appeals for cash. But it was alleged yesterday that £50,000 of the sum handed to the Busoga Association UK went to consultants who arranged the charity’s bid for a donation – a large amount for this type of work. And up to £200,000 is still ‘unaccounted for’, it was claimed.
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£50,000 of the sum handed to the Busoga Association UK went to consultants, it is alleged
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Up to £200,000 is still unaccounted for, it has also been claimed
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Charities estimate they lose £1.1billion a year to fraud, National Fraud Authority found
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Comic Relief, which has given £800million to charities since it was founded in 1985, said it ‘vigorously’ pursued any abuse of funding
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