A former manager at Coca Cola Enterprises has been spared from prison for corruption and bribes worth more than £ 1.5 million after accepting season tickets to Manchester United, concert tickets and money.
Noel Corey, 56, a senior engineer at the UK firm, is taking bribes in exchange for helping preferred companies win lucrative contracts from 2004 until his dismissal in 2013.
Mr. Corey of Lim in Cheshire provided the Boulting Group – now called WABGS Ltd – Tritec Systems and Electron Systems with confidential and sensitive information, giving them an advantage over competitors in bidding.
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He received a 20-month suspended sentence in Southwark Crown court on Thursday. His accomplices, including a Manchester contract manager and a director, were sentenced to 12 months probation.
All three were ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work, and the companies themselves were fined between £ 70,000 and £ 500,000 for preventing bribery.
Peter Kinsella of Woodsend Road, Manchester, who worked as a contract manager at Boulting (Image: Metropolitan Police)
Corey was forced to sell his family home and hand over his retirement savings to pay Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd £ 1.7 million when his nine-year scheme was revealed.
The court previously heard that Corey had received bribes through payments for “fake” contracts for Coca-Cola Enterprises in which the work was never done or the company paid more than the amount charged for actual work, and the difference was sent , prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Corey would be bribed in the form of bogus payments to a bogus company he controlled through family members, Trojan Ltd, Alpha Windows – owned by his son-in-law – or Axial Partnership Ltd, a company where he was partner.
He also received hundreds of thousands of pounds as sponsorship or other payments to Droylsden FC, a football club also run by his son-in-law and of which he was president.
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Corey will also host expensive entertainment events through corporate events company Sports Management UK Ltd, including a payment of more than £ 11,000 for Manchester United season tickets, which will then be paid for by the companies he prefers.
By the time he was found and fired, Corey had received at least £ 950,000 from Boulting, while Tritec Systems and Electron Systems had paid more than £ 600,000 in bribes, the court said.
Boulting, who is said to have won £ 13 million, was fined £ 500,000, while the other two companies were forced to pay £ 70,000. Corey pleaded guilty to five counts of corruption.
Kinsella of Woodsend Road, Manchester, who worked as a contract manager at Boulting, was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for 21 months and 200 hours of unpaid work, after pleading guilty to three counts of corruption and three counts of conspiracy. for bribery.
Gary Haynes, 61, director of Tritec Systems, Pell Wall, Market Drayton, Shropshire, was sentenced to 20 months in prison, suspended for 21 months and 200 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to corruption.
Gary Haynes, Director of Tritec Systems (Image: Metropolitan Police)
WABGS Ltd (formerly Boulting Group Ltd) of Chapel Road, Warrington, was fined £ 500,000 after pleading guilty to one count of failing to prevent bribery.
Tritec Systems Ltd, from London Road, Basingstoke, was fined £ 70,000 after pleading guilty to one count of corruption and one count of failing to prevent bribery.
Electron Systems Ltd, of Chester Le Street, Durham, was fined £ 70,000 after pleading guilty to one count of corruption and one count of failing to prevent bribery.
Each company was also ordered to pay £ 10,000 in costs, and each individual was ordered to pay £ 5,000 in costs.
CPS’s Alistair Dixon said: “Corey has created a culture of corruption in the public procurement process by awarding contracts to those companies whose top executives were willing to bribe him for it.
“Coca-Cola Enterprises did not know about Corey’s corrupt practices in order to get rich. Contracting companies had to have compliance measures in place that would prevent payments from being made and would lead to the detection of corruption. “
Detective Superintendent John Roch of the Metropolitan Police said: “Corey, Haynes and Kinsella worked hard to present themselves as reputable, reliable and real businessmen, but in fact they were just the opposite.
“Corey’s role was one of power; he was the lead site at Coca Cola Enterprises UK and although he did not make the final decision on competitive bidding, his opinion had a significant impact on both project managers and the procurement team.
“This is the first time Met has accused and condemned a company of failing to prevent bribery and sending a strong message to people there who are seeking to create an advantage for their business.”
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