And then there's this...
Jul. 5th, 2020 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersIt seems more of the dodgy business practices of the Government are becoming, um, er, transparent. I copy paste from Twitter. This is all copyright Jolyon Maugham QC, obvs. But at the end he asks if there are any more folk can think of.
I can see his point and so am acting as an amplifier in a small way. And also just to emphasise my disgust at the corruption in our present set-up.
You may think it is not the most obvious place from which to purchase £18.5m worth of facemasks (for which contract it was apparently the only bidder). This Government disagrees. ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NO…
Government does give you the chance to click through and read the contract but (as with every single on I have tried) the link is broken (ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NO…).
So what do we know about Ayanda Capital Limited?
Its net assets (in its unaudited accounts) look healthy but are swamped by its intangible assets, which could be anything.
Well, it is owned by the Horlick family through an entity based in Mauritius, one of the worst tax havens in the world.
Its website says that it is a "family office" focusing on currency trading, etc. Not an obvious place to buy PPE.
(A family office is a rather ugly creature of late capitalism. If you have SOO much money you need a business specially to look after it then...)
This rather interesting man doesn't appear anywhere on Ayanda's website...
But his LinkedIn entry describes him as a Senior Board Adviser. Oh, and an Adviser to Liz Truss' Board of Trade (which does contain an Andrew Mills).
And he has a twitter profile which is rather on-brand for the modern Conservative Party.
A fair bit of White Lives Matter type stuff with the characteristic sprinkling of support for transphobes. But mostly it is RTing support for @trussliz.
Anyway, as Ayanda Capital's contract is by far the biggest I've seen; and its business lines don't include supplying PPE; and it is owned through an especially grim tax haven; and has links to the Tories, this might be one for journalists to take a look at.
Then this lovely tweet makes it all so damn obvious:
twitter.com/jackfmitch/status/127969446211822387
I can see his point and so am acting as an amplifier in a small way. And also just to emphasise my disgust at the corruption in our present set-up.
We are already pursuing a Government over the £108m PPE contracts it said it entered into with a chocolatier and a supplier of pigeon netting. I know there's only so much of this weirdness you can take but here are two more. First Aventis Solutions Limited.
You may think it is not the most obvious place from which to purchase £18.5m worth of facemasks (for which contract it was apparently the only bidder). This Government disagrees. ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NO…
Government does give you the chance to click through and read the contract but (as with every single on I have tried) the link is broken (ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NO…).
So what do we know about Ayanda Capital Limited?
Its net assets (in its unaudited accounts) look healthy but are swamped by its intangible assets, which could be anything.
Well, it is owned by the Horlick family through an entity based in Mauritius, one of the worst tax havens in the world.
Its website says that it is a "family office" focusing on currency trading, etc. Not an obvious place to buy PPE.
(A family office is a rather ugly creature of late capitalism. If you have SOO much money you need a business specially to look after it then...)
This rather interesting man doesn't appear anywhere on Ayanda's website...
But his LinkedIn entry describes him as a Senior Board Adviser. Oh, and an Adviser to Liz Truss' Board of Trade (which does contain an Andrew Mills).
And he has a twitter profile which is rather on-brand for the modern Conservative Party.
A fair bit of White Lives Matter type stuff with the characteristic sprinkling of support for transphobes. But mostly it is RTing support for @trussliz.
Anyway, as Ayanda Capital's contract is by far the biggest I've seen; and its business lines don't include supplying PPE; and it is owned through an especially grim tax haven; and has links to the Tories, this might be one for journalists to take a look at.
Then this lovely tweet makes it all so damn obvious:
twitter.com/jackfmitch/status/127969446211822387
I am starting to understand why it took so long for the UK to obtain PPE. It takes time for conservative MP advisors to become directors of shell companies; to win unchallenged tenders, offshore the profit and complicate basic supplychains whilst the country dies.
