Airport deals under investigation
Thursday 21st July 2011, 3:00PM BST.
Concerns have been raised about the new airport control tower
INVESTIGATING accountants have been called in to review allegations of mishandled Airport contracts.
Concerns have been raised publicly in recent weeks over the new £12m air traffic control tower, including allegations that an £800,000 redesign of the Channel Islands air space zone could have been done free of charge, that a £65,000 per year air traffic controller failed exams and was doing basic administrative work, and that a £6,000 signalling lamp could have been bought for £900.
The investigation has been set up by the States spending watchdog, Comptroller and Auditor General Chris Swinson, who has been contacted by whistleblowers.
The terms of reference for the investigation have been provided to the Economic Development department, which oversees the Airport, but have not been published.
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Something strange going on here.
Whistleblowers? in Jersey,?
nah-your pulling my leg!
Now if it was corruption in Jersey,it would be more credible!
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have you seen the emperor’s new clothes.
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The tintinabulation of alarm bells is quite deafening.
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Oh what a surprise… Jersey states wasteing tax payers money again nothing they do shocks me anymore
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All this on Routiers watch…an apologist who is not really tough enough commercially….tail wagging dog…
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Corruption is fraud, whether it’s in Asia, Greece or Jersey. If these charges are prooved people should be named and prosecuted. We have enough money being lost with our hapless government.
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Here again is more evidence that Jersey is incapapble of anything more complicated than growing potatoes, or catching a few fish.
Seems to me that Jersey needs ‘j’ cat incomers to run the finance sector – it probably now needs to weed out the locals and let incomers run the States and the Civil Service
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good .. it’s good to see highly paid civil servants/ public employees being held to account … I hope that the same standards will also apply to the alledged cover up of the child abuse enquiry.
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Ah! The Jersey Way . . .
.Reading the full article, at what point would the Auditor General and other parties involved decide to take a deeper look at the numbers? £25k out, £50k, £150k out?
I fear this is endemic of how Jersey ‘ runs ‘ large capital projects. When the numbers start running away, no one has the backbone to sort the situation out.
The result?
Massive overspend.
No one is ever responsible or held to account. A scapegoat may be named then paid off and there we are . . .
. . . back to the Jersey Way again!
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Rikki if you believe that you will believe anything!
It’s because we have imported all this highly paid useless talent that has got us into this mess in the first place. WALKER, OZOUF, HORSEFALL, LE SUEUR, are to blame for the demise of Jersey. They brought over all these people and paid them with our money they are solely to blame for all our tax increases.
Imagine Jersey was Walkers brain child and look at the mess we are in socially as well as financially because of him and his quest for power. He is still milking the taxpayer to the tune of £26k a year sitting on the board that runs the airport and harbours. You go figure it out!
If it is proved that people were in fact on the fiddle then they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And that includes the directors and states members.
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This comming election must be centered on accountability.
We can have cheque book accountability online of all government spending.
Without this essential requirement for democracy to work nothing but nothing will change with the result that our economy will deteriate unnecessarily.
This is something that we must fight for. Unlike our ancestors blood needn’t be spilt but this democratic change will not be delivered without a fight.
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Why have the terms of reference been set by the department which is responsible for running the airport, why not the States spending watchdog? – sounds like another not very independent/whitewash report which will cost ££££££.
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The SOJ are well known in contractor circles as soft touches who do not question anything.
They automatically assume they are getting a good deal because of who they are. So full of their own self importance all common sense leaves their tiny little brains.
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Tip of the iceberg!!
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#13 D McS The Terms of Reference have not been released, that being the case, the report probably won’t be either.
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Don’t belive everything you read.
There are always people in this island with ulterior motives.
I’m sure that the truth will out in the end!!!!!
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