Hussain Taxi Scandal Latest!

In last night's post I pointed out the murky circumstances surrounding the award of a contract (worth £100k so far) by Labour Sandwell Council to Five Star Taxis.

This morning I have risen from my sick bed again and can provide you with more shocking relevations.

The first payment under the contract was made on 1st October, 2012 and one must assume that this was for work done by Five Star in September, 2012. At this stage we do not know what tendering or other procurement process was undertaken by Sandwell's sleazy "socialists" but obviously there must have been a course of, er, "negotiations" before September, 2012. This makes sense if the contract started on 1st September, 2012 since Mahboob Hussain, one of Labour's Deputy "Leaders", actually resigned as Company Secretary on 31st August, 2012 (but, as above, one must assume there where some ongoing pre-contract dealings when he still WAS Company Secretary). The resignation was not actually registered by Companies House until 9th October, 2012 when the contract was up and running.

Readers of yesterday's blog will know that Husssain was, however, also the majority SHAREHOLDER in Five Star although he managed to omit this fact from his 

Declaraion of Interests. Then his shares were transferred to one Shasta Parveen.

In fact, the transfer of the shareholding process was a two-stage affair. Hussain had 30 of the 100 shares and transferred 20 to Shasta Parveen on 1st September, 2011. The reason for this is not immediately clear. Hussain kept 10 shares in his own name during the presumed pre-contract negotiations since he only transferred them to Shasta Parveen on the eve of the Sandwell Council contract starting and on the same day he resigned the Company Secretaryship ie 31st August, 2012.

Lest we forget, during the whole period of the contract to at least 22nd July, 2014 another 20% of the shares were held by Nasreen Begum - who shares the same name as Mahboob Hussain's wife. In law the share ownership is  most definitely what is called a "beneficial interest". Now in Hussain's previous Declaration of Interests AND the new one he has JUST completed on 11th September, 2014 (a week ago) Hussain answered "None" when he was asked to declare:

"Any contract which is made between you and your partner or a body in which you and/or your partner have a beneficial interest and the Council (a) under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be executed: and (b) which has not been fully discharged."

Assuming this Nasreen Begum IS Mrs Mahboob Hussain then this is an outright lie in a legal declaration.

Now here is a funny thing, since Hussain has now taken the shareholding off Shasta Parveen back into his own name on a date between 9th October, 2013 and 22nd July, 2014. Five Star have been getting much lower payments recently but Hussain has taken back the shareholding at the VERY latest on 22nd July, 2014 but again failed to mention it in his Declaration of Interests of just last week even though SMBC paid Five Star at least another £2,639.52p in August!

Oh and by the way, my website only shows a person's Mother and not their Father but Shasta Parveen was born in November, 1988. And her Mother? Nasreen Begum - wife of Cllr Mahboob Hussain.

Looks like another job for the Boys'n'Girls in Blue to take a look at!


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