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| Cllr Jayne Kenyon |
Earlier this year Real Whitby, a local news website, revealed that Conservative Cllr Jayne Kenyon and her partner Cllr Bill Miller are directors of Belvedere Computers Inc, a firm which was suspended in California in the 1980s for non-payment of substantial debts.
Cllr Kenyon is chair of the North Yorkshire police authority, a member of both North Yorkshire county and Scarborough borough councils and chair of the Scarborough & Whitby Conservative Association.
Much more recently she was a director and company secretary of wood products company Dales Timber Limited (DTL), which went bust in 2009 owing £225,000 to local businesses and individuals. Cllr Miller was a director of the same company.
Neither Cllr Kenyon nor Cllr Miller declared their interest in
their registers of interests - nor that DTL was a supplier to the county
council, Ryedale district council and the North Yorkshire moors national park
authority.
A complaint was made, including evidence in the form of Companies House documents registering her appointment as company secretary and bearing Cllr Kenyon's signature, she claimed it had been forged.
There was an initial investigation and North Yorkshire council's monitoring officer Carole Dunn said that Kenyon was "unaware" she had been company secretary of DTL and that the complaint had been ‘fully investigated.”
But then Kenyon retrospectively added that fact to her NYCC register after all.
A complaint was made, including evidence in the form of Companies House documents registering her appointment as company secretary and bearing Cllr Kenyon's signature, she claimed it had been forged.
There was an initial investigation and North Yorkshire council's monitoring officer Carole Dunn said that Kenyon was "unaware" she had been company secretary of DTL and that the complaint had been ‘fully investigated.”
But then Kenyon retrospectively added that fact to her NYCC register after all.
Cllr Kenyon's DTL directorship is currently "redacted"
from her North Yorks register as "historical.., sensitive
information". But the same information is declared on the SBC register.
The section of the North Yorkshire register concerning contracts with NYCC
states "none known”.
So we get to the crux to the story. The allegation of fraud by Real Whitby must be answered. At present this incident is being investigated and the Investigating Officer is Mr Stephen Knight.
But in an added twist, it was Mr Stephen Knight conducted the initial complaint against Councillor Kenyon where allegations made against Cllr Kenyon has “been fully investigated”
Can we expect a transparent investigation? We will have to wait and see.
Source and http://www.private-eye.co.uk/
So we get to the crux to the story. The allegation of fraud by Real Whitby must be answered. At present this incident is being investigated and the Investigating Officer is Mr Stephen Knight.
But in an added twist, it was Mr Stephen Knight conducted the initial complaint against Councillor Kenyon where allegations made against Cllr Kenyon has “been fully investigated”
Can we expect a transparent investigation? We will have to wait and see.
Source and http://www.private-eye.co.uk/
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