A former Ministry of Defence official who took kickbacks worth more than £70,000 for commissioning military reports for Saudi Arabia has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
He received £45,000 in commissions, along with new cars worth a combined value of £30,000 for him and his wife, after persuading his boss to use £702,000 in MoD cash to pay for military reports. Pictured: Southwark Crown Court They said the British government approved payments worth millions of pounds because they were in the country's 'best strategic interests.'Cook alone denied but was convicted of misconduct in public office, between 2004 and 2008, by 'seeking and receiving a 'commission' on a contract or contracts which the MoD, his employer, placed with ME Consultants Limited, without reasonable justification or excuse'.
John Mason , 81, the accountant and part-owner of GPT, was commissioned to write reports for the National Guard while Cook was at the MoD, the court heard Terence Dorothy, 82, also a former civil servant at the MoD who went onto work for Marconi, and Peter Austin, 80, a co-founder of the Simec companies, were also involved in the plot, Mr Heywood said.Dorothy, through a company called MEC Consultants Ltd, owned by Mason, was commissioned by Austin or Cook to write six reports on how to improve the project for £702,000.
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