Two people from Bucks have been charged with election offences in connection with the disappearance of a £10.25million loan to a football club.

Alan Mayfield, aged 64, of Hill Farm Road in Chalfont St Peter, and Parekh Brijkumar, aged 65, of Broken Gate Lane, Denham, are two of seven people who have been charged, police revealed on Friday.

The charges are in relation to a long-running police investigation after £10.25million was loaned by Northampton Borough Council to Northampton Town FC to pay for the re-development of the club’s East Stand.

Detectives have been looking into the disappearance of the money for nearly six years.

The first hearings relating to the investigation will take place on Friday, July 16.

A statement from police detailing the charge said: “Without reasonable cause, being the principal donor of a donation of more than £500 to a registered party, namely Northampton South Conservative Association, (they) failed to ensure that, at the time when the donation was received by the party, the party was given all such details in respect of the person treated as making the recordable donation as were required by…the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.”

The other five defendants are all based in Middlesex.