The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into the Bfon Trust, a Jewish charity, after it repeatedly failed to file its accounts.

The Bfon Trust had been part of the regulator’s class inquiry into “double defaulting” charities - those who had not filed accounts for two out of the last five years.

The Commission announced that the charity had been removed from the class inquiry in August after filing the missing documents. But the regulator has now opened a new inquiry after the trust again failed to file financial documents before a deadline.

Its latest documents were due by 31 January this year, but have not been received.

Bfon Trust’s objectives are to relieve poverty, sickness and infirmity among people of the Jewish faith.

Accounts for the year ending March 2013 show that it had an income of almost £1m and expenditure of £933,000.

All of its income is classified as voluntary donations and £931,000 of its expenditure is charitable grants “for the relief of poverty”.

It has three trustees, no employees and no volunteers.

The charity has not responded to an invitation to comment.

The inquiry was opened on 19 February, but the announcement was delayed because no announcements about inquiries were made during Purdah, the pre-election period when governmental bodies are restricted in what public statements they can make.