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    Senior staff at EON and British Gas jailed for accepting millions in bribes, as profits skyrocketed
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    Senior staff at EON and British Gas jailed for accepting millions in bribes, as profits skyrocketed

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    2. BestButtons on

      > Former senior staff members at two leading energy firms have been jailed for accepting over £2 million pounds worth of bribes in exchange for commercial contracts.

      > The bribes, which happened between 2011 and 2015, took many different forms, including payments, transfer of ownership of desirable vehicles, false references and wage slips for mortgage and rental applications, stays at hotels and even an air-conditioning unit.

      > Baker received three years and ten months in jail and Heyward received two and a half years.

      > Four other defendants were sentenced at the same court:

      > • Timothy Neil Paterson (56 of Derby) – four years in jail

      > • Richard King (51 of Lutterworth) – two years and five months in jail

      > • Angela Baker (53 of Beal, Goole) – suspended sentence of 13 months

      > • Andrew Mark Blunsdon (57 of Winscombe) – suspended sentence of 12 months

      Took a while, but the justice caught up with them.

    3. AirResistence on

      EON stuck me and my partner in a debt trap, we moved into a new place landlord didnt tell us who the energy provider was etc so when we finally found out we tried signing up with them we couldnt. So we emailed EON and told us to use the previous tenants details which we said we cannot, so we emailed them a copy of our tenancy agreement and then we heard nothing from them for awhile. So we send off another email and then we were stuck at square one with them. Got to the point that we couldnt get through to them at all, so they sent a massive bill including the previous tenants bill as well as ours and valued the energy at about £400-600 per month for a tiny 1 bed flat. So we went to citizens advice, they told us to send a formal complaint and they told us what EON was doing to us is wrong and not our fault which I did and they ignored, I sent off a few more and still ignored. So now I got to go back to citizens advice AND NOW I hear about this lmao obviously.

    4. LSL3587 on

      Misleading headline. The staff who took the bribes cost their company Eon money. Contractors bribe the people who sign off their work – and bill Eon extra.

      Eon investigated due to the budget overspend (ie losses) on the projects.

      Separately, the businesses were making profits.

    5. wsionynw on

      Light sentences. I know a girl got 9 months (not suspended) for stealing and then paying back, £2k.

    6. tomayt0 on

      Its funny and sad in a way, a lot of us when joining companies have to do all these god awful compliance trainings.

      Normally the trainings are on a clunky webpage with lots of clicking, terrible stock photos and videos of role playing scenarios with cringey acting.

      The most common trainings you have to do are: data protection, competition law, health and safety and **bribery**.

      At the end of the bribery training course, they say something like, “it doesn’t pay to take bribes, and you will be locked up and the key thrown away”, but I think in this case with these people, it really did pay well!

    7. dave_po on

      That’s such a good deal, get over £2m, then 1 year “holiday” with free accommodation.

      I’ll do shady shit for a joke sentence like that 😂