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An Alzheimer's charity has been suspended from receiving donations, two years after a Charity Commission investigation found evidence of misconduct in an allegedly related organisation.

The Financial Services Authority has suspended the Alzheimer's Association from its register of industrial and provident societies for three months for failing in its charitable remit.

The association is believed to have connections with the Alzheimer's Foundation, which
was in effect taken over by the Charity Commission in January 2003 after an investigation found that,

of nearly £550,000 raised, it had spent less than £65,000 on charitable activities.

The Alzheimer's Association has been forbidden from operating as a charity, must not receive donations or grants and will only be reinstated if it can prove its charitable purpose when its suspension ends.

The Alzheimer's Society, the UK's largest dementia charity, welcomed the news saying the matter had caused its members "great concern".