Former MP Denis MacShane is to be charged with false accounting over £12,900 of expenses claims.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it had decided there was “sufficient evidence” to proceed against the ex-Labour minister for allegedly faking receipts.
Malcolm McHaffie, deputy head of the special crime division at the CPS, said: “This charge relates to fraudulent claims with a total value of £12,900. The charge is of false accounting, contrary to the Theft Act 1968.
“It is alleged that Denis MacShane claimed expenses for research and translation services carried out by a company that did not carry out that work.”
He will appear at City of Westminister Magistrates’ Court on July 30.
Police examined MacShane’s expenses nearly three years ago before dropping the case.
The investigation was reopened in the wake of a report from the Commons standards and privileges committee last November which found he had faked receipts to receive thousands of pounds of public money.
