Thursday, May 14, 2009

Director of London College, suspected of illegally receiving bonuses.

Director of one of the leading colleges in London suspected of illegally receiving bonuses, totaling almost 200 thousand pounds sterling (about 223 thousand euros). This May 13, writes the newspaper Evening Standard. In total, Sir Alan Davis (Alan Davies), takes the post of head of department college Koplend (Copland), and his colleagues have unlawfully received about a million pounds over seven years.
Davis and his deputy, Richard Evans (Richard Evans), and treasurer of the institution Udokoro Columbus (Columbus Udokoro) were suspended from their posts at the time of investigation into the incident. Teaching community condemned the British action director of the college, saying that news of the fraud Davis shocked and terrified everyone.
Consideration of the circumstances of the incident at the college, located in north-west London, was launched about a month ago, when the audit authorities received information about illegal activities of Davis and other members of the institution.
Turning to the financial documents, the experts committee found that the 2008 Sir Alan illegally received 80 thousand pounds (over 89 thousand euros) and for the year 2007 - 50 thousand pounds (nearly 56 thousand euros at the current rate). In addition, a few previous years on account of Davis has received a total of about 65 thousand pounds (72,5 thousand euro).
Nevertheless, the President of the College Ai Pi Patel (IP Patel) said that Sir Alan has received all the money for legitimate reasons - bonuses were paid to him for his "excellent performance and hard work." "He earned every penny that has been transferred to his account. Amounts of bonuses had been agreed with the supervisory committee on pay" - stressed Patel.
Davis himself does not comment on the situation. His deputy Evans refused to answer any questions. Treasurer school Udokoro said that all the bonuses he received were approved by the leadership of the college. "I do not understand how someone can say that we have committed a crime" - he said. What is the maximum penalty that may threaten the teacher and his colleagues, Evening Standard did not specify.

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