Editing Jeffrey Archer (section)

===Kurdish aid controversy===
In July 2001, shortly after Archer was jailed for perjury, [[Scotland Yard]] began investigating allegations that millions of pounds had disappeared from his Kurdish charity.<ref name="ST"/><ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|title=Archer faces 'missing aid' probe|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1451998.stm|work=[[BBC]]|access-date=18 December 2007|date=23 July 2001|location=London|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040626204601/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1451998.stm|archive-date=26 June 2004}}</ref> In 1991, Archer had claimed to have raised £57,042,000.<ref name="ST"/> In 1992, the Kurdish Disaster Fund wrote to Archer, complaining: "You must be concerned that the Kurdish refugees have seen hardly any of the huge sums raised in the west in their name." Kurdish groups claimed that little more than £250,000 had been received by groups in Iraq.<ref name="ST"/>

A [[British Red Cross]]-commissioned [[KPMG]] audit of the cash showed no donations were handled by Archer and any misappropriation was "unlikely"; however, KPMG also could find no evidence to support Archer's claims to have raised £31.5 million from overseas governments. The police said they would launch a "preliminary assessment of the facts" from the audit but were not investigating the Simple Truth fund.<ref name="Ind">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/audit-concludes-archer-made-up-charity-total-9276513.html|last=Boggan|first=Steve|title=Audit concludes Archer made up charity total|date=24 April 2014|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=3 November 2015|location=London|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305025608/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/audit-concludes-archer-made-up-charity-total-9276513.html|archive-date=5 March 2016}}</ref>