Hussain - More WM Police Corruption?

This blog has pointed out time and time again that West Midlands Police have been corruptly protecting Labour Sandwell Council in general and Cllr Mahboob Hussain in particular (who enjoys "special protection" for allegedly rendering certain "services" to the local Cowards in Blue). Now more disturbing stories have come to light.

Just before I deal with Hussain, I received a phone call recently from someone who has long been involved with Sandwell politics with regard to the Lying Lucy Cashmore saga (see posts passim). This person says that he was personally told by a named senior local police officer, Inspector **** *******, that even though a very prompt complaint had been made following the election that she had provided a false address WMP had deliberately colluded with persons at Sandwell Council to ensure that investigations were sufficiently delayed to prevent the timely submission of a petition to challenge her fiddled candidature (normally such petitions have to be initiated very quickly within 21 calendar days).

Whilst making no inference of wrongdoing whatsoever concerning this serious allegation it should be remembered that the Returning Officer for the relevant election was the head of Sandwell's bent paid service, Jan Britton who is not responsible for presenting a petition but is on record volunteering that he was entirely happy with Cashmore's candidature! (On an unrelated issue, it seems WMP have still failed to interview the highly-paid Jan Britton at a police station under caution concerning his - alleged - complete lack of knowledge of the widespread fraud, corruption and bullying at SMBC that he apparently claims he was completely unaware of!)

I have not related the above Cashmore story to you hitherto as it is based on hearsay evidence (at the moment, at least) but then something else has popped up with a strangely similar ring to it....

Regulars will know that way back in 2014 I reported a number of councillors to WMP in respect of false declarations in the statutory register of interests. This included, inter alia, allegations that Mahboob Hussain had failed to register his and his wife's interests in Five Star Taxis at the time that company was (successfully) tendering for valuable taxi work from Jan Britton's bent Council. (Hussain may have also failed to make further declarations in respect of land sales to family and associates and other matters).

I was completely blanked by WMP and eventually complained to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) who upheld my complaints and confirmed to me in writing that WMP had deliberately taken NO ACTION WHATSOEVER in respect of the important issues I had raised. It is important to note here, that when I attended West Bromwich Police Station to initiate the formal complaints I specifically handed officers a photocopy of the relevant statutory provision which was also set out in covering (and other) correspondence with WMP.

But it seems that the IPCC may have been lying or, much more probably, WMP were also lying to them since a VERY SENIOR Sandwell Council person has privately written to me as follows (my emphasis):

"In the Hussain case, the failures to declare interests were part of the investigations undertaken by the police. However, unlike other criminal matters, there are time limits to bringing proceedings. These are both in relation to when the alleged offences occurred and then in relation to time after the alleged offences were reported. The latter requires that charges must be brought within a year of the allegations being reported. In this case, the alleged offences were reported within the required time period, but the police appear not to have understood that there was the one year limit to bring charges after the report to them. They failed to bring any charges within the time limit and consequently the allegations fell..

The idiots!"

Whilst I had started this particular process in respect of The Liar Cashmore, my specific complaints about Hussain were sent  by recorded delivery mail on 19th September, 2014 to Inspector Pete Rowe at West Bromwich nick (and received) who had been delegated to deal with this by Chief Inspector Sean Phillips. Apart from a phone call I heard nothing whatsoever from Inspector Rowe.

As above, on the one hand the IPCC are saying categorically that Rowe and/or his colleagues (seemingly deliberately) did absolutely nothing whereas someone very high up within SMBC states that, at least in respect of Hussain, they DID investigate but conveniently allowed the time limit for any possible prosecution to expire (and I should say here in the interests of fairness that I am confident Hussain denies all/any wrongdoing). This shocking "failure" was allegedly due to WMP being ignorant of the law (although that seems improbable it does also suggest they sat on the information and didn't refer it to the CPS). Once again folks we can smell that someone has farted, but we don't know who.

With more and more allegations coming out and the obvious intervention by one or more bent WMP senior officers to stymie the initial fraud investigation (and other investigations) it is time for someone in the corridors of power to take everything out of the hands of WMP to let a different and independent force begin a proper investigation.

Meanwhile, I specifically reported the Wednesbury Celebrates scandal to WMP (as did some local residents). WMP have flatly refused to investigate. I recently made a standards complaint to SMBC relating to the involvement of Cllrs Olwen Jones and Elaine Costigan in a grant application and the new Monitoring Officer has confirmed - and this is strictly subject to investigation - that if proven the information is likely to also constitute a criminal offence. Once again, I am sure Cllrs Olwen Jones and Costigan totally deny any wrongdoing. I have shown in previous posts how strangely keen WMP officers are to have themselves photographed with Labour Councillors but this oddly inappropriate behaviour has not been stopped in any way by senior officers. Here are Councillors including Costigan herself (top of head only shown) recently grovelling to Labour's uniformed chums yet again (and I am assuming the officer is "no relation" to the ghastly Councillors of the same name):

(On an unrelated matter I wrote to Cllr Tranter asking if he had any close relatives within WMP but he has declined to respond).

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"Lol" - Cooper Lied to the C*ck-Suckers!

Over at the Joseph Goebbels Institute in Wolverhampton (aka The Express and Star) the editor, Harrison, and some of his staff spent years with their tongues metaphorically rimming the anus of the late Smethwick Scumbag, Cllr "lol" Darren Cooper. Of course, with Dickhead Daz what came out of his mouth had the same evidential value as the outpourings from that lower orifice but "The Star", er, lapped it up and cast his porkies in print, if not in stone. Even when Cooper was caught out - as with his direct use of taxpayers' funds to bung a few thousand quid to (former) Birmingham Labour Councillor Steve Bedser - "The Star" could be relied on to leap to the defence of their man - witness, for example, the appalling arslikhan pieces of so-called "journalist", "Dalek Dan" Wainwright (who moved on to work for those other Cooper groupies, the local BBC!)

Harrison and his staff tried to put the boot in on me on a couple of occasions and infamously printed a pack of porkies about former councillor "Lying Lucy" Cashmore whilst forgetting to mention that she was then working for a company within the Express and Star Group!

But these tough guys were never man enough to apologise when they had mislead their readers. Au contraire, even when confronted with legal documents proving otherwise they CONTINUED to republish the same old fibs on behalf of their hero - the worst example being the Cooper lie that Sandwell College are paying "rent" for the former Public in West Bromwich whereas the actual lease filed at HM Land Registry shows that they are not!

Regular readers will know that the woman-bullying thug, Darren Cooper, was most anxious to have an ice-rink in West Bromwich. Right from the early days of this blog inside informants advised The Skidder that the greedy little scrote was hoping to secure financial advantage from this "deal". I recently revealed the allegation that the ice rink operator, Mike Petrouis, was personally introduced to Cooper and Co by former West Bromwich MP, "Lord" Peter Snape. Petrouis used to place advertising in the Shropshire Star and so, with Cooper feeding them guff as well, the Wolverhampton C*ck-Suckers were immediate cheerleaders for this deeply flawed project.

Now here's a curious thing - following a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request SMBC claim to have no recollection or record of how the proposal came about. They can only say what was already in Council documents ie that the Council was approached by Petrouis. Mysteriously, since current Leader Steve Eling eventually saw the light and pulled the plug on this bent deal, Jan Britton's (Chief Executive [sic]) bent paid service have allegedly got rid of all the early documentation - yet another dramatic failure of governance in his shambolic authority! They even claim they haven't even got a record of the initial meeting! No mention of Snape appears anywhere, natch.

We do know that us taxpayers then paid for SMBC to make "extensive" efforts to find a site for Petrouis before they alighted on the huge multi-storey next to Tesco in West Brom. Documents now released show how ill-thought out this whole thing was and seem to contradict official records anyway. They suggest that, contrary to the official record, Petrouis was to pay for the demolition of the car park. He was also to pay for the ice rink. In return SMBC would charge him £1 a year (yes, you read that right, one pound per annum) for a 150 year lease. Even though the taxpayer would be losing car park of £189,000 per annum less increased rates of £7,350 (a net annual loss £181,650) the comrades were going to bung Petrouis £300,000 (yes, three hundred thousand pounds!)

Right from the off Jan Britton's bent paid service realised that this would be illegal under EU state aid rules*. The law said that, at the material time, a local authority could not grant more than approximately £176,000 to a private company without specific EU approval. Accordingly certain, as yet, unnamed members of "Strategic Finance" recommended that the Council give Petrouis £176,000 cash and the remaining £124,000 be "invested by the Council in environmental improvements in the form of new lighting, pavements, etc". From the very beginning Britton's bent staff recommended flouting the law. (I recently questioned the fitness of the new S.151 Finance Officer to be making decisions on possible fraud and corruption which he had apparently failed to notice it on his watch as a senior accountant at SMBC. Let's hope he wasn't involved in this scam since that calls into question not just his fitness for that purpose but also for his current position even if he is "innocent" of wrongdoing or relies on the Jan Britton "defence" ie "I am very highly paid to do a job which I didn't do. I'm really sorry that I didn't notice the fraud, corruption and bullying going on all around me! Can we just keep on as if nothing has happened please?"

Even though the scheme was deemed to be hopeless under the Council's own scoring system the Labour Party tried to force it through save that they resolved to scrap the lease idea and sell the land cheap to Petrouis instead!

I make no insinuation of any wrongdoing by Petrouis as I currently have no evidence of any but he must have thought all his Christmases has come at once dealing with these "socialist" twisters (who were uncontrolled in any way by the grovelling Britton and other top officers of the authority). Milord Snape is refusing to comment on his alleged involvement in all this.

The FOI reply also confirms what I have claimed all along. The Council made NO options appraisal for the cleared car park site so as to give Petrouis a clear run! If this was not outright corruption then it was negligence by Jan Britton and his staff of the highest order. But then, under Britton, contacts, deals and housing allocations to "friends of the comrades" - to the exclusion of all others - were de rigeur. When is this joker going to be sacked, Cllr Eling?

Back to bully-boy Cooper. I started blogging that this was a bent deal early on - from as long ago as 15th January, 2014 - and pointed out at an early stage that The Wolverhampton C*ck Suckers were quoting Cooper as saying that he dreamt up the idea and that HE had approached ice rink companies! I dealt with the sheer improbability of this recently thus:

"The late woman-bullying thug improbably claimed to the Josef Goebbels Institute in Queen Street, Wolverhampton (aka "The Express and Star") that he had initiated the whole concept and even floated the idea with a "couple" of ice rink companies. They duly printed this tosh in the full knowledge that a retard like Cooper was incapable of working out which hand to wipe his arse with let alone setting-up large business deals!"

How could serious journalists - knowing that "Darren" was an inveterate liar - print this pure propaganda? And yes folks, the truth is out at last in the FOI reply and SMBC have now admitted that it was indeed all untrue and, in fact, Petrouis was the only ice rink operator "Sadwell" had dealings with and they deliberately excluded everyone else from the bent deal. Now there's a surprise......

Sandwell

* If you are wondering why this did not apply in the case of the bent Public deal when SMBC and the College (including Governor WMP Superintendent Bas Javid, brother of Tory Cabinet Minister Sajid Javid) were able to gift a nearly £6 MILLION pound contract to Interserve without competition it is because they resurrected the procurement provisions of the already defunct Building Schools for the Future scheme).

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Give The Keys Back, Lardarse Rowley!

Even by Sandwell standards this is f*cking unbelievable!

Once again The Skidder has led the way in exposing the murky doings of Jan Britton's bent paid service at Sandwell Labour Council - in this case the Parks Department. Curiously, Britton himself used to be a "Parks" person according to his dismally thin CV but, yet again, alleges that he was completely unaware of what has been happening on his watch as the joke "Chief Executive".

Ever since I have been investigating Sandwell I have been recommended to pay heed to the doings of the Satchwells - father and son - in Parks. There is mystery how Satchwell Junior secured a very highly-paid job within the Department given his reputed "abilities" and as to what he actually DOES all day for large sums of OUR money but SMBC assure me he was promoted on merit after interview. So that's alright then.

Without implying at all that the two Satchwells were directly or indirectly involved, there are allegations which I have submitted to Sandwell Council that there has been widespread fraud in Parks. There has been alleged massive over-ordering of materials and plants etc for the parks with person or persons unknown selling off the excess for personal gain (this allegation was also sent to West Midlands Police). An allegation that a named employee has landscaped his Sandwell home from materials purloined from Parks (and the photos look very nice) has, at present, been denied by SMBC internal audit (although the information came from an SMBC whistleblower). On the subject of blowing, there is an unsavoury allegation that a female secured promotion way beyond her abilities via a casting couch down the potting shed.....

But in a Skidder exclusive to 5th April, 2016 (followed up on 17th July, 2016) I revealed how Tom Arnold (of the "well-known" Tipton family) was advertising SMBC property for sale - portakabin offices at the Jubilee Park Depot - on HIS social media!

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/jan-brittons-tipton-teaser.html

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/britton-fcks-up-again-parks-latest.html

Arnold has lived for many years just a few doors down from ex-Councillor Derek Rowley - another Labour figure (like fag-hag Linda Horton) who has also done so much to demean the Office of Mayor of Sandwell. Rowley may not still be a councillor but is the constant companion of Cabinet member ("lol") Sayeeda Khatun and still wields considerable influence within the local Labour Group.

We know that bent WMP are failing to act in any way in respect of Sandwell. Where I receive information which appears to have legitimacy I am now sending it direct to Chief Constable Dave Thompson. Here is my (redacted) letter to him as long ago as 7th April, 2016:

"The Chief Constable                                                                                xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

West Midlands Police                                                                               xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Steelhouse Lane                                                                                      7th April, 2016

Birmingham B4 6NW

Dear Mr Thompson,

Sandwell Council

I don’t know what to do now that WMP have made it clear they are not going to investigate any matters involving the deeply corrupt Sandwell Council. The fact is that people tell me things concerning possible criminal activity which I have neither the time, the resources nor the powers to investigate but one fine day the whole house of cards will collapse and it is important that, come that day, people will know that SMBC, and people connected with it, apparently enjoyed police immunity.

In the circumstances, I still intend to send information I receive to WMP by recorded delivery letter. These are allegations only and have not been investigated by me and so there may be nothing in them - but time will tell.

1   This is straightforward. Informants tell me that xxxxxxxxxxx, a SMBC employee in The Parks Department called xxxxxxxxxx and a private individual called Thomas “Tom” Benjamin  Arnold (xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx in xxxxxxxx Tipton) decided to sell some portable buildings belonging to SMBC and xxxxxxxxxxx. I understand the Arnold family are xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Arnold advertised the buildings for sale:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/jan-brittons-tipton-teaser.html

2 [This relates to unconnected allegations concerning a serving Labour Councillor].

Yours"

I have the recorded delivery evidence that the letter was delivered to Steelhouse Lane (the correct address whilst the renovations of Lloyd House were ongoing.)

Almost immediately an allegation emerged that ROWLEY had also sold at least four shipping containers belonging to Sandwell Council to a "member of the public". According to the Audit Committee it appears this is TRUE!!!! The Audit Committee also said that Rowley had been storing unspecified personal property at the Jubilee Park Depot where - as at last Thursday - the ex-Councillor still had keys to the compound and various units therein!

This is a photo I have shown on this blog before. Who is our fat friend gaining access to units at the Jubilee Park Depot? Who gave Rowley the keys and why?

I was informed by various sources that WMP were also fully aware of the allegation of the sale/theft of the shipping containers but, as ever with Labour Sandwell, they have done absolutely f*ck all.

SMBC got rid of Satchwell Senior following all this - allegedly with a pay-off of taxpayers money! At the Audit Committee last week there was general wringing of hands. It was said that the alleged sale of shipping containers by Rowley to a member of the public WAS a breach of the Council's financial regulations but as he was no longer a Councillor nothing could be done! Similarly Satchwell was no longer a council employee. There was no mention whatsoever of the Council also referring these matters to the police. It was eventually resolved that SMBC would ASK Rowley to return the keys. As an afterthought these geniuses then thought it would be a good idea to change the locks (at taxpayer's expense of course!) Britton - send the bill to Rowley!

Of course, I tried to ask Rowley about all this outside Oldbury Council House when he came to collect Cabinet member Khatun from a meeting. He threatened to "kick me in the bollocks" - which I have on video.

How the f*ck is this not a police matter? Suffice to say I will now be making an official complaint to the IPCC about WMP's failure to investigate this adequately or at all.

Unbelievably, I received communications from someone in Sandwell Council High Command telling me that a named Parks employee who had been implicated in respect of these alleged matters had had two nervous breakdowns and had been on suicide watch so would I be so kind as not to write anything about the Parks scandal? I have heard that trade unions have regularly recommended to SMBC employees that they go sick to avoid investigation and also that useless Jan Britton has, in the past, allowed taxpayer-funded sick-pay to be paid to individuals way beyond the contractual obligations (the most egregious example being Cllr Hussain's son, the "property-developer employee" Azeem Hafeez, in respect of his broken wrist). Incredibly, when I asked how long this named individual had been on the sick the senior person told me "oh no, he's back at work!" It transpires that SMBC do not want to aggravate his illness so have kindly let him back into his old job on full salary with no sanction. So much for Steve Eling's much vaunted "investigations" to "drain the swamp"....

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Cllr Rouf STILL Protected!

A major new revelation about the Rouf mansion scandal came out from Sandwell Council last week but Cllr Rouf continues to avoid scrutiny!

I have written no less that six posts on the scandal of the Rouf mansion plus others referring to it but matters are actually WORSE than I have found out so far....

Let us not forget that Rouf has told a string of lies in his Register of Interests with regard to both his employment situation and his ownership of property. He used to own both 23 Wellington Road, Smethwick and a flat at 88 Shireland Road. Land Registry documents show that in or around 2005 he disposed of his interest in his interest in his flat to one of his sons, Mohammad Shauib though he continued to claim to own it in his Register of Interests (which means he made a false declaration to SMBC or to HM Land Registry). The flat has subsequently been transferred to Saleeman Begum - believed to be also connected to Rouf.

In April, 2013 he sold his unmortgaged property at 23 Wellington Road for £125,000 but despite having this large capital sum (and the possible interest in a flat) he was given an SMBC council house at 33 Trafalgar Road, Smethwick. Why is this not being investigated for f*ck sake?

We saw in yesterday's post how Cllr Frear concealed that he had also been given a council house by claiming to own it in the Register of Interests when this was clearly untrue. Rouf has done exactly the same thing IN MORE THAN ONE DECLARATION. Making a false declaration is, potentially, a criminal offence but, as ever, bent West Midlands Police (WMP) have refused to investigate this.

This blog has shown that Labour Sandwell Council paid over £200,000 for 8 houses in Poplar Grove on Florence Road, Smethwick and then used our, taxpayer's, money to demolish them and create a nice clear building plot. The area is all terraced housing but Labour then sold this huge plot to Cllr Rouf's son, Shauib, for just £65,000. He was granted planning permission by the comrades to put a huge and incongruous seven-bedroom house there - despite widespread local objections (including to London-resident "local" MP John Spellar) - which was subsequently built and where Cllr Rouf himself is now in residence. For good measure, the comrades reduced the price of an annual parking pass in the car park opposite to a pittance!

This blog was actively blocked by Jan Britton's bent paid service from establishing the facts for many months. I have been contacted by a number of people who wanted to buy the nice cleared plot and who contacted SMBC. They say that they were fobbed off either by being told the property was going to auction or that there was a problem in selling the land because of the presence of a small electrical sub-station thereon (which was moved without fuss to land supplied by, er Labour Sandwell Council in the car park opposite. It is not clear whether the comrades also paid for this to be done as another gift to the Rouf family.) One or two other yarns were told potential buyers. they all say that despite having expressed an interest they were NOT contacted by SMBC when the alleged bidding process started.

One family who own businesses in the area were particularly interested. Like all the other people I spoke to they were mystified about the "sealed bid" process for the sale and say they knew nothing about it. This family certainly contacted WMP when the first corrupt fraud "investigation" started and voiced their concern that there had been criminal activity in the bidding process.

But it gets worse! It now transpires from the meeting of the Audit Committee last week that the plot WAS actually put up for auction but a file note says that the former "leader", Smethwick Scumbag Darren Cooper, asked Cllr Ian Jones to pull it from the sale. There is, apparently, a paper trail linking proven liar Jones to the removal of the property from auction. We are now also told that the property was removed from auction by Cllr Ian Jones as it was to be sold privately to another son of, er, Cllr Mohammad Rouf at a considerable undervalue!!!!

Nothing was said at the Audit Committee why this sale did not proceed and we clearly need evidence about this.

At the Committee meeting were two of the Council's statutory officers. Firstly Darren Carter, the new s.151 Officer who is supposed to be the money man. Secondly, the "on contract" and, no doubt mega-expensive, Monitoring Officer, Meic Sullivan Gould (as featured in this blog when he boasted how he has bought a sports car from the money he made out of another Labour basket-case council, Tower Hamlets).

There is no evidence that Mr Carter has been involved in the fraud and corruption of the Cooper/Britton period but I understand that he has been with Jan Britton's bent paid service for some years - certainly since 2014 - as a senior accountant etc. If he was not aware of the fraud and corruption then he was another, like Britton himself, who seemingly had his head up his arse throughout all the shenanigans and the question has to be asked as to whether he is a fit and proper person to be engaged in these investigations. Even if he is squeaky clean there is a public perception that he was in very senior posts when all this was going on. Surely, someone independent must be brought in to deal with these allegations?

We don't know much about Meic apart from his love of putting pictures of himself eating and drinking in foreign climes on social media and whether he is up to the job. He seemingly has no local knowledge and it is noteworthy that after the previous Audit Committee meeting he was to be seen laughing and joking with Cllr Jones's solicitor which seems highly inappropriate in the circumstances.

These two gentlemen claim to have "investigated" these matters. They accept that the allegation that Jones pulled the property from auction to sell to one of Rouf's sons may have been a breach of the Council's rules (!) but they say this should NOT be a matter that should be referred to the police!!!! They say that because the deal was mysteriously stopped by person or persons unknown there was no loss to the Council. (And so if I run into the post office with a gun to rob it but come out empty handed this is not a police matter???)

Darren and Meic then claimed that there was NOTHING WRONG with the sealed bid process where, by amazing coincidence, the plot was sold to another of Rouf's sons.

We must remember that disgraced employee, Dave Willetts of Bog-gate infamy, was involved in all this which must, in itself, be a cause for concern.

Willetts said in a Freedom of Information reply that the large clear plot was "marketed" in an unspecified way for "four or five weeks". Despite the widespread local interest (eg see comment below from Gail Meek and, as above, that a family gave evidence to WMP about their definite interest) Cooper's big mate Dave said only three bids were received. There was, oddly, a £75 fee to bid but one bidder had failed to pay and was immediately disqualified. Of just two remaining bids the highest at a mere £65k was from Rouf's son.

In the very same meeting, Darren and Meic said they were referring other matters to WMP because of problems with exactly the same "sealed bid" process in other land sales but for some bizarre reason they think everything was OK here?

To be fair, at least two Councillors present at the Committee meeting were incredulous about all this. Cllrs Bob Piper and Bill Gavan argued there was clear prima facie evidence that there was something seriously wrong here which must be referred to WMP and it was up to them to decide if there had been criminality. Unfortunately, this rather overlooks the fact that part of this sorry saga WAS reported to WMP by me and others. When nothing was being done due to WMP corruption I specifically wrote to DI Chris Berrow way back on 17th April, 2015 and a redacted form of that letter was shown on this blog as long ago as 24th April, 2015 (see item 7).

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/smbc-another-big-police-cover-up.html

We now know that Darren Cooper, Jan Britton and Neeraj Sharma agreed to commission the Wragge Report and that corrupt WMP agreed to pull the fraud investigation (such as it was) because of this. This is crazy. The Police have extensive investigative powers - far beyond Wragge's and even the Council itself. Wragge's report - in my opinion a very expensive piece of badly-written sh*t - only looked at documents and not the context here. They have assumed that everyone is telling the truth which is ridiculous. In this particular case Jan Britton deliberately made sure that the instructions to Wragges were very limited and did not even ask them to consider some very serious issues like this one (perhaps because Cooper was directly involved) and the Hussain taxi contract! Given the colossal cost of the report this should be a disciplinary issue for the joke "Chief Executive" in itself.

It is noteworthy that at the small demo outside the Oldbury Council House back at the 2016 mayor-making the demonstrators called for a Wragge-style investigation into Rouf but still nothing has been done. As ever, the comrades have circled the wagons rather than root out corruption.

In this particular case the Police already had a prima facie case to question the sealed bid process (also criticised in my very first blog on this affair all the way back on 26/09/14!) and to seek evidence from local people about the dubious sales process. (I am now planning a leafleting campaign in the area.) We know that WMP only interviewed four people under caution in the whole alleged initial investigation and we can safely surmise that Mohammad Rouf was not one of them! That HAS to be rectified Chief Constable particularly given the new evidence on an earlier attempt to sell the land at an undervalue to another member of the same Councillor's family. Come on Dave Thompson - pull your finger out or arrange for an independent force to do the job properly!

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Cllr Frear's Council House

I will be posting in detail about the matters arising out of all the new fraud and corruption allegations coming to the surface from the disastrous Cooper/Britton years but at least it looks like Mahboob Hussain's bag man Cllr Andrews/Bloxham/Kerton/Frear (or whatever name he is currently using) seems to be in the clear - for now....

At the Audit Committee last week it was reported that, whilst it was unusual to grant a single man a three-bedroomed Sandwell Council house at a time of desperate shortage, there had been nothing "inappropriate" with his application and that it had been personally approved by the Director of Housing Services at Sandwell Homes (was this the disgraced Adrian Scarrott or someone else - clarification please? Addendum 31/01/17 - usually reliable sources say Scarrott DID authorise this for Frear.)

Addendum 30/01/17 - Steven Frear was himself a Director of Sandwell Homes Limited 24/05/06 to 21/05/08.

Regulars will recall that this affair was yet another Skidder exclusive. Frear was shacked up with a woman in Whyley Walk but was then granted the three-bedroomed property at Hill Top, Oldbury. By repute, Frear is notoriously impecunious - possibly due to an "exotic" lifestyle. Unbelievably the late Smethwick Scumbag, Darren Cooper, made him Chair of the Planning Committee at "Sadwell" when he appears not to have the intellect nor ability to run a whelk stall but then Cooper and Hussain liked to put yes-men and women in positions of power to do their bidding eg the joke "Chief Executive", Jan Britton.

It is disappointing that Jan Britton's bent paid service have not put the list of the huge expenses claimed by the comrades for March, 2016 on the website - the last figures being for March, 2015 (perhaps Leader Steve Eling can put a boot up Britton's ample arse?) The earlier figures are also conveniently deleted from the website and so I cannot say what Frear was earning at the time of his application but for the year ended March, 2015 he scored a generous £23,758.08 from us taxpayers by way of expenses. Apparently he still qualified for a three-bedroomed council house despite his earnings. Of course, we know that he has also had a well-paid lodger for some of the time - the foul-mouthed social media troll, Paul Kerton. See:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/twitter-troll-no-1-paul-kerton.html

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/twitter-troll-no-2-double-header-darren.html

If you haven't got time to read those posts now, suffice to say that Kerton's social media output was vile and that he also colluded with the thuggish Cooper to harass my wife's employers. Happily this nasty individual works with primary school children with a good salary courtesy of his employers, er, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council!!

I am not sure what the rules are about sub-letting Council housing in Sadders but Kerton could certainly afford accommodation in the private sector. But the pair of them, with a joint income bound to be considerably more than £50k per annum, were found to be deserving of public housing from the comrades!

As above, the Audit Committee was told that Frear somehow qualified as a single man for a three-bedroomed home and so the comrades decided, in effect, that nothing more could be done and that there should just be a general tightening of procedures so that such applications are made more "transparent" in future. Specific mention was made that living in Council housing would, in any event, appear in an individual councillor's Register of Interests entry. Clearly, the councillors on the Committee and the Council's statutory officers have not been reading The Skidder properly because the whole point here is that Cllr Andrews/Bloxham/Kerton/Frear did not make such a declaration but had made a false entry in HIS Register of Interests. He stated that he actually personally OWNED the Hill Top property. It was only when The Skidder received information to the contrary that a Land Registry search was undertaken and this was found to be wholly false. (Incidentally, Cllr Rouf made a similar false entry when he sold a property he owned and immediately was housed in a SMBC council house - whilst he may also have had an interest in a Smethwick flat at the time too - see picture!)

I specifically referred Frear's false entry to Sandwell Police (ie separately and not as part of the later bent WMP Fraud investigation). In the absence of a response on this and other related matters I made a complaint to the Independent Police Complaints Commission who upheld my complaint on the basis that WMP/Sandwell Police had taken NO ACTION IN RESPECT OF THE COMPLAINT WHATSOEVER. They have done nothing since either! Still Frear is a close friend of Hussain so enough said....

We are none the wiser how Frear qualified for public housing nor how he was permitted to sub-let to Kerton. It has never been established why he made a false declaration (a potential criminal offence) on the Register. Now his Labour comrades are just washing their hands of all this as per....

Incidentally, whilst there was no suggestion of obvious criminality on the part of Frear a course of conduct which he was connected with WAS specifically referred to the later WMP Fraud investigation [sic] but, as we know, one or more bent coppers pulled that investigation.

The Chief Constable himself is also personally aware of another allegation which may or may not be true.

Of course, the BBC have mostly ignored the fraud and corruption in Sandwell. Frear used to boast of his sexual conquest of a very well-known local BBC personality and so don't expect them to look into his, er, affairs.....

Addendum 30/01/17 - Corrected - Frear is now on the Housing Scrutiny Board!!!!! How do sick Sandwell Labour allow this to happen?????

Addendum 31/01/17 - It now transpires that as a sick joke all those Labour Councillors who attended the full Council meeting on 19th July, 2016 waived Frear's nomination through!

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Butt Out Tom Watson MP!

As ever, it has been Adam Smith and The Halesowen News who have blazed the trail in the local media with the latest fraud and corruption allegations engulfing the Labour rotten borough of Sandwell.

Also disclosed by them this week was the story that Cllr Mahboob Hussain is fighting any action to be taken against him by the Sandwell Council Standards Committee on the ground that such action is politically motivated. This is a bit rich noting his and his family's mysterious involvement in numerous bent land deals and the taxi contract scandal. Of course, Hussain enjoys the protection of West Midlands Police thanks to "services rendered" and so they helpfully pulled the first police investigation into these matters.

Now both the statutory officers of the Council and the political leadership are asking WMP to come in again given further evidence of apparent wrongdoing that has emerged. Clearly the Chief Constable - a groupie of the late Smethwick Scumbag, Darren Cooper - must ensure that ALL outstanding matters are properly investigated (preferably by calling in an independent force).

As we all know, a resident of Bermondsey in London "controls" the local Labour Group ie effectively the whole of Sandwell Council even though he seems to have little time for the Borough otherwise. Yes, waddle forward the joint-laziest MP 2010-2015, Tom Watson MP (occasionally).

Hussain should appear before the Standards Committee simply because of the overwhelmingly amount of evidence of his involvement in a number of dodgy transactions (not to mention the allegations of staff-bullying made against him - and apparently condoned again by the Chief Executive [sic] Jan Britton and the feeble trade unions). Similarly the police must now interview him PROPERLY under caution. But Hussain is apparently right though when he says there is also a political campaign against him as local Labour sources say this is being orchestrated by Watson himself!

Watson, like most cowards/bullies, prefers the knife in the back to confrontation. The Rutting Walrus is alleged to have submitted a "72 page dossier" to the Labour Party to "finish" Hussain off. This sort of thing is muddying the waters in the "proper channels". Even though Party and Council are hideously intertwined in Sandwell this purely Party infighting so beloved of Watson is causing real damage. Whilst the new regime are working very hard to "drain the Cooper/Britton swamp" Watson cannot resist interfering. Back in December, for example, he rushed off to those infamous apologists for the Cooper/Britton regime, The Wolverhampton C*ck-Suckers (aka The Express and Star), to demand speedy action - again rich noting his active support of the bent leadership over so many long years:

(One comment in the paper about the above described Lazy Tom as "as much use as a cat-flap in a submarine......")

Mind you, when Watson says he is doing something it is hard to know whether that is true or not (apart from when he hounds a dying man to his grave with vile and false allegations). He was given a hard time by a number of constituents over the proposed closure of The Public and eventually claimed that he had submitted another of his pathetic "dossiers" by email to the thuggish Cooper. Yet this is the reply to a Freedom of Information Request from the Council itself:

"I have liaised with the relevant Officers, who have confirmed that no 
correspondence from Tom Watson MP was received by Councillor Cooper in his 
official council e-mail address, or by officers of the Council between the 
1st April and 24th December 2013."

Of course, he may have had a private email for Cooper who may have deliberately concealed any dossier received but we simply don't know. Someone is lying again though.....

Whilst we are on the subject of the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (ROFLMAO!) his constituents will, no doubt, be delighted to note that he has been very exercised with a council planning application recently and has been sticking his oar in. But, of course, Watson doesn't choose to live with the scum in his benighted constituency and so "Bermondsey Tom" was mithering about matters closer to his south London home ie Labour Lewisham Council's plans to sell land around Millwall Football Club. Watson voters in West Brom East - you are either very sad, very stupid or both....

So Watters old chap - concentrate on your obsession with the Murdoch family, your extensive expenses claims and your sh*gging and butt out of Sandwell Council issues!

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Cllr Bawa Allegations NOT New to BENT West Midlands Police!

Its been another explosive week in Sandwell as further fraud allegations rock the corrupt Labour Council. Except that some of the allegations are not new and were buried by bent West Midlands Police in their stinking first "investigation"!

Well over two years ago a member of Smethwick's Muslim community provided me with a number of leads concerning corruption under the Cooper/Britton regime. (Of course, Chief Executive - ROFLMAO - Jan Britton currently remains in his highly-paid post.) This caller explained to me that he and others were sickened by what was going on in Oldbury Council House and that they had thought they had left behind this sort of criminality when they left Pakistan.

He alleged that Cllrs Mahboob Hussain and Cllr Babu Bawa OBE (Order of the Brown Envelope?) used to be great friends before an estrangement and that they had both "made a killing" out of the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) for properties in West Bromwich Street and Foundry Lane, Oldbury. Alas, he was unclear on the details and, being so long ago, I struggled to get to grips with that particular story.

On 2nd November, 2014 following information from a delightful lady I discovered that Bawa had bought a building plot from SMBC in 2000 and I duly put in a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) on 23rd October, 2014 and blogged about the suspicious nature of this transaction on 2nd November, 2014. Here is the link if you want to go back to it:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/a-curious-option-on-councillor-bawas.html

On 14th November, 2014 I had a lengthy interview with police officers DS Wayne Haynes and a DC when these matters were raised. I specifically mentioned that I could not get to the bottom of the CPO business but that the Police should be able to do so with their greater investigative powers and access to records. I only personally met DS Haynes once and he appeared to be a very diligent officer. He made copious notes throughout the meeting. Of course, we now know that at least one officer above him was bent and hindered the investigation before pulling it altogether.

In the meantime, Jan Britton's bent paid service had replied to my FOI request on 4th November, 2014:

"As you will be aware, allegations of misconduct or unlawful behaviour are currently being investigated and it is believed that disclosure of the information you have requested would interfere with the outcome of the investigation into allegations related to the sale of the land at Bridge Street, Oldbury. The aforementioned investigation will determine whether allegations of misconduct that have been made are founded or not. Given the gravity of the allegations that triggered this investigation, it is of paramount importance that a fair and impartial inquiry be conducted.....

I can also confirm that we have consulted with the police who, as you are aware, are conducting the investigation. The police have advised that release of this information would impact upon the integrity and validity of their investigation."

Accordingly, they used a statutory defence to avoid answering the FOI. But you will note from the above that both SMBC AND the Police were already fully aware that this was, at the very least, a suspicious deal. Of concern is the fact that we now know that WMP did NOT investigate many of the allegations made against "Sadwell" but effectively also stopped the Council carrying on with its own investigations since they claimed that they were. (I will be writing shortly about another matter where there is alleged collusion between SMBC and WMP to prevent the investigation of a possible crime. They may have both been at it here too.)

Of course, under the disastrous Cooper/Britton leadership [sic] there would not have been a Council investigation anyway. It is also noteworthy that all the Labour Councillors of Sandwell had notice via this blog of this and many other suspicious deals but sat on their hands. No-one at all raised any questions but many preferred to insult and attack me (and my wife) either directly or via The Smethwick Scumbag, Cooper.

You will all be aware that local media like the BBC and The Wolverhampton C*ck-Suckers have, with only a handful of exceptions, bent over backwards (and forwards in the case of the Suckers) to protect Dickhead Darren Cooper and his cronies. Nationally, Private Eye have taken a keen interest but locally, the only voice in the media wilderness has been Adam Smith of the Halesowen News and so it was no surprise when Adam scooped his bigger and wealthier rivals with the latest exposes.

Here is Adam breaking the Bawa story:

2:11pm

These are the audit committee report's findings over concerns over land sales to Councillor Bawa and Councillor Hussain when displaced from their homes by a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) September 1999.

"The council has found indicators that suggest potential collusion and fraudulent practice against the council may have taken place. While it is looking back retrospectively over a period of time which is now nearly 20 years ago, the unique set of circumstances surrounding certain sales, and that Councillor Bawa and Councillor Hussain benefitted from a unique CPO pilot scheme, give rise to these concerns.

In particular in the following areas:

• Why an exclusive bid for self-build plots was only introduced in 1999 after the majority of residents affected by a CPO had already relocated and was restricted to plots of land that Councillors Bawa and Hussain had already expressed an interest in back in 1998.

• That only Councillor Bawa and Councillor Hussain and their immediate family members submitted bids for these plots in September 1999, and that the bids gave the impression of potential cover pricing and bid suppression.

• That for one plot, four bids were received all from Councillor Hussain and members of his family without any declaration to the council that this was the case.

• That the two plots that were sold in March and April 2000 were done so at a value below the guide price, contrary to the agreement at the time the scheme was approved.

• A failure by Councillor Bawa to declare his role as a councillor when a planning application was submitted on his behalf in October 2007. This matter has been referred to West Midlands Police’s Regional Organised Crime Unit and should be referred to the council’s Monitoring Officer.  

• Concerns over one of the sales were raised back in 2001 with the District Auditor. Unfortunately due to the passage of time the investigation team were unable to determine how this matter was concluded at the time.

• That Councillor Bawa never actually took up residence in the property built under the scheme. 

You will see that matters have been referred to the Police but they were already au fait with the information and deliberately shafted any investigation - particularly anything relating to Hussain who enjoys their special protection for "services rendered".

Of course, a number of the other suspicious land deals connected to the Hussain family used the "sealed bids" system as did the sale of the Florence Road, Smethwick property to Cllr Rouf's son.

Incidentally, a senior Sandwell source has told me (although it is currently unconfirmed) that the Chair of the Committee which nodded through the CPO arrangements to the benefit of two of his comrades was that useless streak of p*ss (even by Sadwell standards) Adrian Bailey - now of course Adrian Bailey MP (MP = Mahboob's Patsy?)

Steve Eling: "In you get, Mahboob!"

Jan Britton's bent paid service only recently answered my original FOI. The plot was sold to Bawa for £14,000 but I still can't tell you his profit on the deal. SMBC told me in the FOI that Bawa was entitled to apply "as a resident" and that the sale had been done via sealed bids without mentioning any of the above suspicious details and so, effectively, trying to deceive me yet again.

Clearly the police must re-open investigations right across the board and not just in respect of the new matters this week. As I have shown in this blog, Sandwell Police (part of WMP) are constantly up Sandwell Labour's arse. We know they have been protecting Hussain from proper investigation. We have seen that a local superintendent enjoyed golf and spa "sessions" with senior management. It is alleged a senior manager was shagging a WMP Inspector. High ranking Sup't Basit Javid (brother of the government minister) was directly involved - possibly innocently and/or stupidly - in the bent Public deal. I will shortly be blogging about one or more senior officers actively blocking enquiries into Cooper's vicious and criminal trolling campaign against me and my wife. One or more bent senior officers stitched up the first enquiry. Oh, and who was a craven apologist for the sh*thead Cooper you may wonder - none other than the current Chief Constable.

Accordingly it is essential that this whole stinking mess should be taken out of the hands of West Midlands Police and another force brought in to PROPERLY investigate this and all other matters.

In the meantime, local MP James Morris has written to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Sajid Javid (see above), asking him to intervene to drain the swamp. Watch this space....

PS:  I am anxious to trace the exact address of the shop Mahboob Hussain had in Bearwood/ Smethwick many years ago which "caught fire". I hope someone out there can help. The exact road name would be a start!

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