A charity that ran a mosque was used to encourage support for the Islamic State, an investigation has found.
The Charity Commission launched an investigation into Fazal Ellahi Charitable Trust in Stoke-on-Trent after imam Kamran Hussain was jailed in 2017 for supporting IS and encouraging terrorism.
It said a failure by trustees to manage resources properly led to its use for "terrorist purposes".
The charity has now been dissolved.
The commission said in 2009, the charity had been removed from the register because the commission believed it no longer existed.
But despite the removal, the charity continued to operate, it said.
The probe, launched in April last year, saw checks carried out, including an unannounced visit to the charity's premises and analysis of its bank statements.
The commission also received documents which had been seized by police at the premises.
Investigators found "serious mismanagement and misconduct" by trustees at the charity, and said they failed to maintain and preserve records relating to the charity's income and expenditure. [BBC] Read more
