Ecovert & Brighton & Hove Council rip off # 463

[Bry Nylon]

From the current issue of 'Private Eye' ...

"Council taxpayers pay £14 for every plate of biscuits consumed by members at meetings of Brighton & Hove city council (current deficit, £18m). The biccies are supplied by private company Ecover, with whom Skidrow-on-Sea (*ahem, surely Brighton & Hove?*) has an eight-year conntract. According to a councillor, 'they aren't even nice biscuits.'"

... let the greedy f**kers do what most of us in private companies have to do these days and bring in their own biscuits in if they want to stuff their fat faces.


*and relax*

 

[desprateseagull]

are any counvclors also directors / employees of ecovert?

how come they havent been chucked out of this town yet,
after the mess they made (refuse colelction etc)

 

[fatbadger]

Ecovert is the British Services arm of the huge multinational construction company Bouygues. They have been investigated in all manner of corruption enquiries, particularly in France, for (for example) bribery, bid-rigging and the misuse of company funds. It has also been fined on a number of occasions for membership of illegal price-fixing cartels (including, on one occasion, a fine of $30million, which gives some measure to the level of corruption involved). It is also being currently investigated for corruption concerning the Lesotho Highlands Water Project; two of its partners on the project have already been found guilty of bid-rigging and bribery. Another subsidiary of Bouygues, SAUR, has also been accused of various nefarious activities and was a partner of Enron in some of its dodgiest dealings.

Nearly all of these investigations have involved public projects, such as water services and school-building. Ecovert is now a regular partner of the government in various PFI projects. Let's hope the investigators in Britain are as effective as their French counterparts, otherwise god only knows what they will get up to.

Anybody who chooses to do business with this lot is either stupid or already corrupt.

For details, see:

www.labournet.org/1999/Feb/saur.html