The treatment of Osita Mba, the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) solicitor, is a public scandal. It was he who revealed that Dave Hartnett, former head of HMRC, had made a private deal with Goldman Sachs, sealed with a handshake, that let them off payment of interest amounting to at least £10m. This issue of […]
Posts Tagged ‘Whistleblowing’
The government are keener to catch whistleblowers than tax avoiders
May 7th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.
When are we going to stop whistleblowers being sacked?
Jan 23rd, 2013 by Michael Meacher.So after informing the authorities in the public interest that the gas market pricing system was being rigged, Seth Freedman, an employee of ICIS Heren, a lead company in the market, has just been sacked. The man who told the public about price-fixing in the gas retail market (shades of the Libor scandal in banking) […]
