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They may punish them, but the money is already gone in and has been spent.
See also Cambridge Analytica (the ICO is investigating wrongdoings, but the votes they won won't be retracted)
Only thing I can think of is offering all parties an open and cheap government audited funding system (rather than a commercial one which some small parties can't afford) and you must use that one.
No doubt that has side effects as well, but I don't see how they can check (for any party) that people who donate are on the UK electoral roll or companies based in the EU until well after the fact.
JWestland
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Definitely too little, too late.
...would imply it actually does some regulation and issue some kind of punishment. It could, but it won't, as usual.
There is the old adage that cheats never prosper, except that the majority of them seem to do so. In fact this system seems positively set up to encourage it.