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You are here: Home / News / SFO scroungers: Phillippa Williamson, Christian Bailes and Richard Alderman

SFO scroungers: Phillippa Williamson, Christian Bailes and Richard Alderman

July 30, 2014 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

Three SFO incompetents who also cleaned up over Tchenguiz – with bumper pay-offs!

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Phillippa Williamson: allowed to work in Lake District two days a week

The Serious Fraud office has just paid Vincent Tchenguiz and his companies £3 million, plus another £3m in legal costs, but what of the other payments made by the SFO?

Bumper pay-offs to its incompetent staff who messed this case up, that is.

In 2013 Parliamentary Accounts Committee thoroughly castigated the SFO for the odd way in which senior staff left the organisation during the Tchenguiz case and the payouts they received. Will we ever know why the payments were made?

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Richard Alderman, former SFO director: compo unknown … as yet

Phillippa Williamson joined as CEO at the SFO in 2008 and would go on to earn a salary of approximately £120,000.

She was ultimately the person in charge of the Tchenguiz debacle.

Somehow she became entitled to a pay-off of a staggering £513,694 after being made “redundant” in April 2012 just a month before the judicial review of what would go on to become the failed Tchenguiz case.

Subsequently, it would also be found she had been wrongly delegated with decision-making powers by the then director Richard Alderman.

Williamson was also criticised for being allowed, by Alderman, to work two days a week from home – in the Lake District. She was paid large amounts – more than £100,000 – to travel to London to do some work on the three days a week it is asserted that she appeared in her office.

Current employment is not known. Repayment to the state £0.00

Then we come to Chief Capability Officer and then Chief Operating Officer Christian Bailes.

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Christian Bailes: apparently an expert in ethical breaches at Control Risks

Total payout £487,585 owing to redundancy again, agreed by Mr Alderman. This included a payment for staying on requested by Mr Green “to ensure continuity”.

Current location: seems to have just appeared at Control Risks. More here Repayment to the state £0.00

As the article states, “Chris manages a broad array of complex investigations into fraud, corruption and other ethical breaches, supported by teams in the UK, Germany, France, Russia, Benelux, Nordics, Iberia, and Africa.”

Both payments criticised by Parliament along with the actions of Alderman.

CHRIS BAILES – CONTROL RISKS | Global Banking & Finance Review

Director, Fraud and Financial Crime Developed and led a comprehensive transformational change programme for a business critical arm of a FTSE 50 UK corporate outsourced services company, helping stem contract losses of c£1m a month Advised a FTSE 50 UK corporate on a market entry strategy to help win a

It seems a coincidence the people at the top of the SFO got things so wrong in the Tchenguiz investigation and suddenly left without a blemish on their record.

As for the much criticised Director Alderman himself, he also left the SFO just as the Tchenguiz case collapsed.

“I have been working with some international institutions and NGOs dealing with anti-corruption on the front line. This is what I wanted to do because I had met a number of individuals who inspired me. Recent examples are the Convention on Business Integrity in Nigeria and an initiative by the Egyptian Junior Business Association aimed at the vibrant SME sector in Egypt. I have also had the privilege of meeting individuals involved in the radical transformation of the procurement practices of Moscow City Council.”

More on this here

In a stinging report published in July last year, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee berated the SFO for presiding over a “catalogue of errors and poor judgement” in doling out pay-offs to failed executives.

The MPs said: “The former director’s decisions on redundancy and severance packages showed a disregard for the proper use of taxpayers’ money. Mr Alderman failed to follow due process by deciding the amounts in special severance packages and by not seeking alternative placements for staff.

“He ignored legal advice available to him and did not gain the necessary Cabinet Office and Treasury approval for payments. He failed to comply with the principles that should underpin the use of public money.”

The committee published a letter that Mr Alderman sent to it days after a gruelling evidence session before it in which he admitted it was “justified” in criticising his actions and offered his “deep and unreserved apology”.

The report found that Mr Alderman’s actions and decisions took place amid a culture where external advice and scrutiny was “to be avoided wherever possible” and with an “apparent need for secrecy”.

It said: “This catalogue of errors amounts to a case study in how not to run a public body… We look to the Cabinet Office and the Treasury for safeguards to ensure there is no repeat of this debacle.”

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Comments

  1. francescc

    July 30, 2014 at 6:21 pm

    Incompetence and total failure, but rewarded for it, can someone explain this outrage to the taxpayers or do we just keep paying and shut up.

    • Michael Epstein

      July 31, 2014 at 7:23 am

      Probably Francescc,
      Remember the Shoesmith payout of over £600,000 after the baby “P” tragedy..

  2. N Tire Lee Gullible

    July 30, 2014 at 7:11 pm

    Dear Mr Alderman,

    My cousin in Nigeria had just been left some monies but am having a problem getting it out of the country unless I can send it someone in England who is held in high esteem. If you could send £100,000 and your bank account details to my bank in Cairo I will cut you in for 10%.. I will then send your 10% to my uncle Vlad who works for the council in Moscow and can also be trusted.

    Your Victor Tchegsmith

  3. charles willis

    July 30, 2014 at 11:14 pm

    Are these redundancy payments, IN FACT, GAGGING ORDERS, so the participants keep quite???

  4. Karen

    July 30, 2014 at 11:29 pm

    This is one I would love to see Margaret Hodge and the round table gang get their teeth into…

  5. Trevor Bradley

    July 31, 2014 at 8:27 am

    I made my thoughts on he Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation site. You just could not make this up could you, an absolute disgrace and waste of important public/taxpayers money. The SFO people should all be shamed into paying their handouts back. How can we get this information out to all the general public

  6. AM

    July 31, 2014 at 10:09 am

    If an employee, which the former director was, acts outside their terms and conditions then they face potential personal liability, and we should as in the case of the BBC where exactly the same issues arose, sue ’em. And that includes the same civil servants that advised them in both cases.

    As Martin says on Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation, some good did come out of it, Peveral as was was taken out of ownership of the dark empire, and as I say we see the civil service for what it is, a sucking mudpit, but until these are addressed properly neither outcomes can be the success that they could have been.

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