Madonna faces FBI probe over charity

The development comes a week after it emerged that the 52-year-old had to scrap plans to build a school in Malawi due to financial mismanagement by her charity,’Raising Malawi’.

The star abandoned the project because $3.5 million had been frittered away by members on needless luxuries.

The investigation will be another setback for Madonna and raises the prospect she could be drawn into a federal tax probe in the US. ‘Success for Kids’ claims to have raised $33 million and describes itself as “the largest international social emotional learning organisation in the world” with offices in eight countries,including Malawi.

Madonna who adopted a daughter,Mercy,from Malawi last year and a son,David,in 2008,has fired the board members of ‘Raising Malawi’ and assigned a executives including her manager Guy Oseary.