Polymarket Account in Farage Backer's Name Took $9M in Crypto From Unknown Sources: FT

The investigation also tied Cottrell to a crypto-gambling platform it said was implicated in "potentially illegal" unlicensed betting in the UK. Since the election, the Sunday Times reported, he has let Farage use a five-storey house he rents near Buckingham Palace, minutes from Reform's headquarters; his lawyer said that "as a close friend," Cottrell "did, and does, allow Mr Farage to stay in" the property.

Both the Sunday Times and the FT have pressed whether money from unidentified sources helped fund benefits for Farage or Reform, a question Cottrell has declined to answer, including on who beneficially owns the Polymarket wallet.