Ben Delo, the BitMEX co-founder who was pardoned by Donald Trump last year after a US criminal conviction, has moved back to the UK from Hong Kong with a very specific agenda: pouring money into Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
Delo announced his relocation on April 8 and has already donated £4 million ($5.1 million) to the party across two installments. That makes him one of Reform UK’s largest individual donors heading into the next general election cycle.
Following the money trail
The £4 million arrived in two tranches. The first £2 million landed on January 14, followed by another £2 million on March 2.
Delo’s relocation wasn’t purely about patriotic homecoming. The Labour government introduced a £100,000 cap on donations from British citizens living overseas. By physically returning to the UK, Delo sidesteps that restriction entirely, freeing him to donate without ceiling constraints.
