Breaking news- Olympic stadium- corruption claim?

[paulhs1]

So I hear too.

not sure about that UTJ
Apparently £20k secretly transferred from west ham to an executive connected to Olympic stadium bid. Big talk on sky news of the bid being re opened.

[AJ]

If its true then

[Hammer110]

Would that be this story http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 71,00.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, it's been done on other threads (todays gossip and O/S threads).

She neither worked for the OPLC or the club on the bidding process nor had any access to bid documents, it wasn't secret by the club she was employed as a consultant on matters to do with the procurement if we were successful in getting the O/S she "forgot" to declare it to her employers!

[Brats64]

Sky News says £20,000 paid by west ham to her.

[Essex 'Ammer12]

Would that be this story http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 71,00.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, it's been done on other threads (todays gossip and O/S threads).

She neither worked for the OPLC or the club on the bidding process nor had any access to bid documents, it wasn't secret by the club she was employed as a consultant on matters to do with the procurement if we were successful in getting the O/S she "forgot" to declare it to her employers!

Don't think it's her, this is a different case I think.

[Modern]

Sunday Times

A shadow was cast over the Olympic Games last night after it emerged that the £500m stadium is at the centre of a corruption scandal.

One of London’s biggest football clubs has been exposed for making secret payments to an executive on the body that awarded the stadium to the club after the Games are completed.

West Ham United made payments totalling £20,000 into the executive’s bank account before and after it was selected as the owner of the stadium in east London.

The money was paid to Dionne Knight, the Porsche-driving director of corporate services at the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC), the quango that awarded the stadium to West Ham.

The arrangement was put in place by Ian Tompkins, a director of West Ham who masterminded its Olympic stadium bid. Knight and Tompkins are in a relationship together.

Both executives were suspended on Friday after The Sunday Times confronted them with evidence of the payments.

They told reporters that Karren Brady, West Ham’s vice-chairwoman and a judge on BBC television’s The Apprentice, had known about the payments. They said it was for “consultancy work”.

However, Knight also admitted that she had not told her employers about the payments. The disclosures could force the government to reopen the bid for the Olympic stadium if West Ham is found to have acted improperly.

The information — detailed in bank and telephone records — was obtained by corporate investigators hired by Tottenham Hotspur, the Premier League club that was the loser in the contest for the stadium.

Tottenham is seeking a judicial review of the decision. The club refused to comment officially but a senior source said: “Clearly if West Ham had someone on the payroll from the OPLC and it can be proved that she had access to confidential information relating to the bids, there is no way it can’t go back and be reopened.”

Knight, 34, who earns £84,000 a year, is one of a small number of directors on the OPLC, a government body set up to manage the handover of the stadium and the surrounding Olympic park.

The investigators were hired by Spurs two days before West Ham was voted the preferred bidder on February 11. Both clubs hoped to make the stadium their home ground. West Ham was the preferred bidder because it pledged to keep a running track inside the stadium.

Investigators obtained bank statements, credit reports, utility bills and telephone records for Knight and Tompkins. Knight was placed under surveillance. They established that four payments had gone into Knight’s bank account between December and April from a West Ham United account at the Bank of Scotland, for £566, £1,302, £3,400 and £4,600. They say there was a further sum of £4,800 in June.

This weekend Knight admitted receiving a total of £20,400 from West Ham and said it was for consultancy work. The arrangement was made two months before West Ham won the bid. She had initially refused to say what the work was. Yesterday her lawyer said it was “a procurement contract in relation to the stadium”.

Knight had informed the OPLC about her relationship with Tompkins but admitted she had not told it about the cash from West Ham. She accepts this was wrong but denies leaking confidential information.

West Ham faces questions about why it commissioned the work before it had even won the bid and why it sanctioned payments. The club, relegated from the Premier League last season, said Brady had been led to believe that the OPLC had approved Knight’s consultancy work. It would give only scant details of the work.

In a statement, the OPLC said Knight had told it about her relationship with West Ham’s bid director and measures were taken to ensure she had no access to sensitive information

[Ticket 2 Ryde]

I ****ing despair sometimes I really do.

[Essex 'Ammer12]

not sure about that UTJ
Apparently £20k secretly transferred from west ham to an executive connected to Olympic stadium bid. Big talk on sky news of the bid being re opened.

ffs what happens if they give it to spurs? if they move to east london can you imagine the chaos?

they should just knock the ****ing thing down. make it the 25,000 seater athletics stadium it was always meant to be.

[WHU-Nejtin]

Everytime I think I am at my lowest, this club proves me wrong by depressing me even further.

We can now look forward to weeks of hate from the press, just like we got from the Tevez affair.

We are also going to have to put up with Hearn and Levy running their mouths and running us down

[TK-nufc]

Would that be this story http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 71,00.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, it's been done on other threads (todays gossip and O/S threads).

She neither worked for the OPLC or the club on the bidding process nor had any access to bid documents, it wasn't secret by the club she was employed as a consultant on matters to do with the procurement if we were successful in getting the O/S she "forgot" to declare it to her employers!

Don't think it's her, this is a different case I think.

If that's the case, "Uhoh".
Really hope this doesnt result in your club being dragged through the mud - couldn't give a **** about G/S but, like the Carson Yeung fiasco, when it has potentially negative implications for a football club it's bad to see.

[Up the Junction]

How about we give the histrionics a rest and see what the club have to say about it first?

[Dan1326]

It is the same one as Friday, nothing to see, move on.

[beckton]

According to the news story on KUMB it is the same case.


Sounds like Spurs having been digging up dirt, I do hope their private investigators haven't broken any laws.

[west ham15]

Stick sky news on now people, Full story after the break

[beckton]

Stick sky news on now people, Full story after the break

A secret letter between Eric Pickles and 'Dave' Cameron, even they're involved. It's a conspiracy! :lol:

[Essex 'Ammer12]

Sunday Times

A shadow was cast over the Olympic Games last night after it emerged that the £500m stadium is at the centre of a corruption scandal.

One of London’s biggest football clubs has been exposed for making secret payments to an executive on the body that awarded the stadium to the club after the Games are completed.

West Ham United made payments totalling £20,000 into the executive’s bank account before and after it was selected as the owner of the stadium in east London.

The money was paid to Dionne Knight, the Porsche-driving director of corporate services at the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC), the quango that awarded the stadium to West Ham.

The arrangement was put in place by Ian Tompkins, a director of West Ham who masterminded its Olympic stadium bid. Knight and Tompkins are in a relationship together.

Both executives were suspended on Friday after The Sunday Times confronted them with evidence of the payments.

They told reporters that Karren Brady, West Ham’s vice-chairwoman and a judge on BBC television’s The Apprentice, had known about the payments. They said it was for “consultancy work”.

However, Knight also admitted that she had not told her employers about the payments. The disclosures could force the government to reopen the bid for the Olympic stadium if West Ham is found to have acted improperly.

The information — detailed in bank and telephone records — was obtained by corporate investigators hired by Tottenham Hotspur, the Premier League club that was the loser in the contest for the stadium.

Tottenham is seeking a judicial review of the decision. The club refused to comment officially but a senior source said: “Clearly if West Ham had someone on the payroll from the OPLC and it can be proved that she had access to confidential information relating to the bids, there is no way it can’t go back and be reopened.”

Knight, 34, who earns £84,000 a year, is one of a small number of directors on the OPLC, a government body set up to manage the handover of the stadium and the surrounding Olympic park.

The investigators were hired by Spurs two days before West Ham was voted the preferred bidder on February 11. Both clubs hoped to make the stadium their home ground. West Ham was the preferred bidder because it pledged to keep a running track inside the stadium.

Investigators obtained bank statements, credit reports, utility bills and telephone records for Knight and Tompkins. Knight was placed under surveillance. They established that four payments had gone into Knight’s bank account between December and April from a West Ham United account at the Bank of Scotland, for £566, £1,302, £3,400 and £4,600. They say there was a further sum of £4,800 in June.

This weekend Knight admitted receiving a total of £20,400 from West Ham and said it was for consultancy work. The arrangement was made two months before West Ham won the bid. She had initially refused to say what the work was. Yesterday her lawyer said it was “a procurement contract in relation to the stadium”.

Knight had informed the OPLC about her relationship with Tompkins but admitted she had not told it about the cash from West Ham. She accepts this was wrong but denies leaking confidential information.

West Ham faces questions about why it commissioned the work before it had even won the bid and why it sanctioned payments. The club, relegated from the Premier League last season, said Brady had been led to believe that the OPLC had approved Knight’s consultancy work. It would give only scant details of the work.

In a statement, the OPLC said Knight had told it about her relationship with West Ham’s bid director and measures were taken to ensure she had no access to sensitive information

so basically from reading that, it is exactly the same story as the other day but the sunday times are making something out of nothing? well done english media if this is the case you surprise me yet again.

if not then bad times. bad times indeed.

[Dan1326]

Stick sky news on now people, Full story after the break

A secret letter between Eric Pickles and 'Dave' Cameron, even they're involved. It's a conspiracy! :lol:

Really?

Dave who suppots Villa is helping WHU?

[paulhs1]

she "forgot" to declare it to her employers!

Quite a big thing to not tell your employers!

[beckton]

OK, I watched Sky News and if that's all they have, the story is a right load of b*llocks.

It was given about a minute and a rehash of the story from a few days ago.

[Dan1326]

Sky in talking b*llocks shocker :shock: