When did it become legal in this country to be able to "buy-off" a police investigation?
The ludicrous "partnership" between the moral cowards in blue and bent Labour is now so entrenched that only outsiders can break this up. The Government must intervene and another force be brought in to deal with Sandwell matters.
This blog has been saying this for a very long time now but the ridiculous letter from WMP below reinforces the points made ad nauseum. It cannot now be that senior officers are pulling investigations simply for alleged administrative efficiency or to protect their informants (there were at least two Labour Councillors in the latter category - one infamous ex-Councillor and one current one who admitted being an informant to my face). It cannot be that such a perverted relationship has formed just to protect the pathetic "Sandwell Partnership". Bent coppers must have been on the take here and/or there are mutually acceptable agreements with councillors to ignore drug-trafficking, money-laundering and child sexual exploitation a la Rotherham.
Just by way of one example, Cllrs Eling and (then) Cllr Marshall disclosed there HAD been fraud in the Council eg on 17th October, 2016 they sent me the message "...other than in Neighbourhoods where we have identified the corruption...". This from the very top of the sleazy Council. Adrian Scarrott was in charge. He was widely said to be Hussain's bagman in that department and Eling and Marshall confirmed via WhatsApp "him being linked to Manboob's" but it appears he has NEVER been interviewed by WMP even though they are fully aware of Eling and Marshall's allegations. Compare and contrast their approach to me - I have been under investigation for over four months now for writing this blog by the Complex Crime Unit. I am also under further investigation for the alleged (and denied) use of a single swear word outside Oldbury Council House. The difference of course, is that Scarrott was alleged to be the person enjoying golf and spa days with a senior WMP officer whilst shagging another. So West Midlands Police - what corruption did Eling and Marshall identify and what are you going to so about it? When will you interview Scarrott under caution?
Take a read of the letter from a Chief Inspector and I will then comment on it. I should say that I am making no inference that this Chief Inspector is, himself, corrupt or has behaved improperly (though at least one of his colleagues has). As far as I know, he was also not involved in the fraud investigation although he has been involved in other Sandwell matters which makes the last part of his very odd letter extremely worrying.....
1 When Sandwell Council bought off the fraud investigation (see further below) I wrote to the Chief Constable of WMP saying I was going to keep sending in allegations of fraud and corruption from brave whistleblowers as I received them. If he did nothing that was his prerogative but when this facade of baked excrement comes tumbling down I will hasten to the local media with proof that WMP knew of issues but failed to take any action and this came right from the very top. Hitherto I have sent all correspondence to him by recorded delivery or hand-delivered it to Lloyd House. I think I just posted my letter of 13th March, 2018 and, lo and behold, it was "never received". But this lot are being completely disingenuous since the letter was put up as on open letter on this blog on 14th March, 2018 and WMP have been going through this blog line by line in a desperate attempt to find incriminating evidence against me! Funny how they "missed" a blog about their "special friend" Mahboob Hussain!
2 I have said before that WMP were aware of Hussain's involvement in the bent Lion Farm deal and here they admit it but then simply say that it was "outside the scope of the Regional Fraud Team (RFT) investigation". Why FFS? I personally know that the RFT WERE aware of the fact that Hussain's son had bought the Rickshaw Restaurant in Dudley and sold it to developer Jeremy Knight Adams (via one of his companies). Hussain's son WAS being investigated by them so who stopped them investigating this? Presumably it was the same bent officer or officers who cobbled up the amazing deal with the Council to stop the investigation all together (see below). The point is that I have sent open letters to Chief Constable Dave Thompson and to the Minister for Local Government asking them to start investigating this NOW! I have pointed out that the Wragge Report (see below) specifically did NOT investigate the option given to Jeremy Knight Adams on Lion Farm Fields though it DID suggest Hussain may have been in breach of obligations under The Bribery Act. So Chief Inspector - please get busy and investigate this whole stinking deal! What (or more particularly who) is stopping you?
3 This next line from a senior police officer is absolutely "disgusting" and worthy of official censure: The Wragge Lawrence Graham (Wragge) Report identified no criminal offences and it was agreed that the Monitoring Officer would take forward any standards investigation." Regular readers will be bored sick of this bollocks from posts passim ad nauseum but this is all vitally important. We all have to keep hammering these points hope until someone in authority recognises the scam that went on here and brings in another force to reinvestigate:
(a) The RFT started an investigation into Sandwell Council. OK it was very late in the day but better late than never. The late Smethwick Scumbag Darren Cooper was determined to protect Husssain at all costs (and it seems the third leg of The Triad, Eling, was too until he had a change of heart and decided to shaft Mahboob and grab power). Virtually all the fraud and corruption identified had been committed whilst Jan Britton had been the so-called "Chief Executive". He had been appointed despite being under-qualified just to do what he was told as was Neeraj Sharma, the Monitoring Officer. Sharma, a solicitor, had been subject to a damning report when she worked at Walsall Council which, in the real world, should have finished her career in local government. But what better candidate to be hopeless Jan Britton's top legal officer [sic] than a woman who had a track record of turning a blind eye to dodgy dealings? Neeraj Sharma was DIRECTLY involved (with Nick Bubalo) in most of the dodgy deals exposed in this blog either due to incompetence or fraud. Neither Jan Britton nor Neeraj Sharma have been interviewed under caution by WMP in respect of any of this and this must still be done!
(b) Corrupt police and members/officials of Sandwell Council hatched a plan. Sandwell would appoint a solicitor to do a report about just some of the deals which would then never be made public. The bent WMP officer or officers involved in this deal would ensure the RFT investigation was stopped. How can this possibly be lawful? Who else gets to influence WMP in this way? This is why the Government MUST bring in another force to investigate this.
(c) Guess who got to decide what would be investigated by the solicitor? Yes, of course, it was Jan Britton and Neeraj Sharma! And so the bent Lion Farm deal was specifically excluded from the investigation as were other bent deals eg the sale of the Florence Road plot to Cllr Mohammad Rouf's son. On this basis there is nothing to stop WMP starting investigations into these matters NOW (although it would be better of an outside force was brought in to do so). Why, Chief Inspector, are you not doing this? Is someone in WMP stopping you from doing this?
(d) Jan Britton and Neeraj Sharma had very close links with Wragge's (possibly personally as well as professionally) and did not put the job out to tender in accordance with normal procedure. Jan and Neeraj decided what they should investigate (FFS!) and then agreed to pay them £100,000 (yes, that is right, one hundred thousand pounds) of taxpayers' money ie YOUR money! Later Wragge's came back for more and feeble Britton agreed an extra £80,000 ie £180,000 in total.
(e) The police have powers to (i) search people and premises; (ii) seize documents and property; (iii) interview witnesses under caution (holding people in custody for specified time periods if necessary). The Wragge solicitor had none of these powers and it is unsurprising that the final report was useless cobbled up from a few testimonies of bit players and the review of some documents only. (There were widespread rumours at the time of the "disappearance" of a large number of documents from the Oldbury Council House. The Wragge solicitor did not apparently, make any forensic investigation of what documents may have gone astray which is something the police could have done). Perhaps most significantly of all witnesses were not interviewed under police caution and Hussain's son - a key player - refused to give evidence at all.
At paragraph 1.6 the Wragge author stated: "A particular note of regret and frustration is that Azeem Hafeez, an employees of the council (!)...and a purchaser of two of the properties subject to review was not produced for interview, or compelled to answer questions."
Of course, Azeem's involvement was not just in respect of "the purchase of two properties" as the RFT officers were diligently discovering before they were pulled off the investigation. Because of the solicitor's powerlessness in comparison to the police the report was useless and it is hardly surprising (even given the deficiencies of the author) that "no criminal offences were identified". For a senior officer to say this is absolutely breathtaking. The Wragge Report was not a police investigation and so there is nothing whatsoever - bar corruption in WMP - preventing the Chief Inspector re-opening these investigations and doing they job properly - something WE pay him and his colleagues to do.
To put the cherry on the icing on the cake this absurd letter states that matters were referred back to the Monitoring Officer ie Neeraj Sharma who had been directly and personally involved in most of the fraudulent details and who had not been interviewed by WMP and cleared of any wrongdoing herself! What is going on here? Where else would someone part of a criminal enterprise (even if innocently via sheer incompetence) get to be "chief prosecutor" on these very same matters?
(As it was, Hussain was only "done" by the Standards Committee for two minor parts of the whole corruption scandal - the sale of some old bogs and interference in the enforcement of parking tickets. Meanwhile the family are set to clear over one million pounds profit on Lodge Street, are sitting on a nearly £400,000 profit from Jeremy Knight Adams whilst busy developing Clifford Street and sitting on other property..... You have been had by Sandwell Labour folks and WMP are protecting the ones who have made the money. Someone is on the take...)
Eling, the weirdo new "Leader", is pretending that he was nothing to do with the cover-up but this pathetic weasel was well aware the Wragge Report was intended to stay secret despite the taxpayer paying £180,000 for it. He wrote this in an email:
"Specifically in relation to the Wragge Report , it is my understanding that the report would have data protection status, and that the time and costs that would be associated with the redactions would prevent its release should a request be made for it under the Freedom of Information Act."
What a ****! Incidentally, there are many of the comrades who dislike Eling personally but who say that he has, hitherto, been loyal to his friends. It has been rumoured he even visited his bent friend Bob Bone in prison when the latter came to grief up in Rotherham. He was close to Mahboob before he decided (or was encouraged by someone else) to shaft him. Many comrades say Hussain was best man at his wedding but "Mr Transparency" "lol" is refusing to say! But him and Marshall were vicious to The Milkman's former friend when power beckoned: "the one thing we have to do is bury Manboobs" was sent to me by them via WhatsApp. What a ****!
(4) Despite me specifically setting out in great detail the "badges of fraud" surrounding the bent Lion Farm deal the Chief Inspector has chosen to ignore all that but makes reference to a recent Standards Complaint which is nothing about criminality but about Sandwell Councillors failing to abide by the Council's Code of Conduct. In particular, how Cllrs like Hackett, Eling and Moore etc foolishly or possibly even corruptly (?) agreed a multi-million pound deal in just - literally - seconds. This was all set out on this blog on 12th June, 2018:
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2018/06/technical-blog-lion-farm-standards.html
Is it just me or is there an inference here that the Chief Inspector has discussed a purely Council matter with the new and highly controversial monitoring officer, Surjit Tour? I asked Tour about this on Tuesday night but he declined to comment.
(5) I will comment further on Surjit Tour below but in his final paragraph he refers to housing allocations. I have been writing to the Chief Constable about how Darren and Sarah James - two very well paid GMB people - managed to be eligible for a Sandwell Council house. A Labour Councillor specifically told be that this had been arranged via Tom Watson MP and his stooges on the Council. Now there are Labour Councillors who hate the London-resident MP and it is quite possible that this specific allegation is malicious and untrue. But this requires proper investigation and it cannot be done from outside eg as the Freedom of Information Act does not cover council housing. But then I also sent an actual screenshot to the CC where a brave SMBC whistleblower had implicated Hackett in two separate council housing allocations to a young woman in Wednesbury using a very senior employee, Jim Brennan. Of course, this comes with the usual caveats - this may have been a disgruntled employee putting something on screen to smear Brennan and Hackett for malicious reasons before deleting the entry or it may be genuine. But I had been told from a known and very well-placed informant that there HAD been an "investigation" at SMBC and Brennan had been exonerated. But we must remember what Sandwell investigations in Jan Britton's bent paid service tend to consist off - Britton himself claimed publicly that he had conducted a thorough and in-depth investigation into Hussain's failure to declare interests when bidding for taxi contracts. When forced to eventually say what this investigation consisted of it transpired that the £160k a year man had kept no documentation whatsoever as to how he conducted the alleged "investigation" or his findings. Of course, Britton is an honourable man or most of us would think he had just been lying....
The reason I sent this to the Chief Constable was that I was NOT satisfied there had been a full and proper investigation into the screenshot allegtion and I urged WMP to investigate this and the James house allocation. To simply transfer this back to the highly-controversial monitoring officer is a sick joke and an insult.
Snail Mail
As we have seen, WMP tried to disrupt this blog by seizing my phone. People are anxious about calling me but the 07930 361831 number is on a different phone which, unless WMP have got permission to tap it, is fine to use. The email account may have been compromised by corrupt officers and I have changed the password now but if you really are worried about using it you can write (remember that?) to me:
Julian Saunders, 11 Chelworth Road, Birmingham B38 0BG.
It is via this method of communication that the next story emanates...
Surjit Tour
Eling and Marshall told be they wanted a "bastard" as Monitoring Officer. I cannot say whether Tour fits that bill but he came to Sandwell with a stinking reputation from his time on the Wirral.
We have seen Tour's efforts to silence me already and his unlawful approach to my Standards Complaints irrespective of issues raised below (more anon). He was also the one who organised the powwow with members of the Standards Committee the day BEFORE Cllr Ian Jones's hearing! (It was this unbelievably foolish and unfair behaviour which was leaked and which led directly to the appalling and wrongful suspension of seven decent hard-working secretaries (post passim and continuing).
He and Jan Britton cooked up the ludicrous new attempt to re-write the laws of England and Wales with their recent attempt to restrict freedom of speech on Sandwell matters eagerly taken up by the ridiculous Cllr Steve "Luvvie" Trow on orders from "the Bunker". Their "partnership" with bent WMP means that the latter are deeming the single use of a swear word as a criminal offence which will happily lead to a string of comrades having their collars felt in the coming months. The first one is already logged in WMP's system!!!!!
Recently someone wrote to my home address with a very serious allegation against Tour. Yet again I have to say that the allegation is just that and it may be false and malicious. Nevertheless someone had taken the trouble to trace my address (now set out above and below). In the circumstances I have referred it as a whistleblowing allegation to Peter Farrow - Sandwell Council's auditor (you know the one - the man who is so competent he also "missed" all the corrupt transactions AND a £15m hole in the accounts FOR SEVERAL YEARS!).
The allegation read in block capitals:
"WITH REGARD TO THE LAST TWO COMPLAINTS YOU HAD REJECTED - ASK SURJIT TOUR FOR A COPY OF THE ADVICE HE GOT FROM THE INDEPENDENT PERSONS."
In other words, an allegation (which may well be false and malicious) that Tour has been lying to me when telling me HIS decisions have been fully approved by the independent persons. That, if true, would lead to instant dismissal but I am sure Mr Farrow will soon be writing to me completely exonerating the trainee "bastard"!
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