Judicial and Insolvency Service corruption - The Ministerial Briefing Report

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Stop Corruption UK LLP

Dear Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy,

On 19th February 2021 I wrote to Lord True, Lord Agnew, Lord True, Minister Gove, Minister Skully and other Ministers via the Ministerial Correspondence email and their private email addresses to address issues of insolvency and judicial corruption. I wrote also to Minister Callanan of the Insolvency Service and other Ministers at BEIS.

I wrote in respect of the Ministerial Briefing Report of that date detailing:

"The matters present wide ranging public interest issues, demonstrating that in the UK one cannot rely on the terms of a completed contract to gain restitution in the courts in my own case and in both cases, that both the justice system and the Insolvency Service are rotten to the core with corrupt practices designed to defraud, conceal and asset strip".

"I am asking that following our Zoom call, you all raise this document in the House of Lords. This outrageous corruption under the façade of “justice” and insolvency has been going on for too long. Political interference is the main driver of this systemic corruption and inter-agency collusion".

No Minister, nor their representatives attended the Zoom call and absolutely no response to my concise 22-page report (with the table of contents for ease in navigation) was provided. I list however, the number of times the email and report was read by the various Ministers:

[email address] - (Lord Agnew) - Scot Young estate & Times article: Insolvency firms put under investigation - Inter agency collusion: Last read: 11:56, Mar 24 Read: 43 times
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[email address] - (Michael Gove) Ministers concealing indictable offences & fraud against creditors - The intel report: Last read: 16:09, Mar 18 - Read: 10 times
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[email address] - (Lord True) - Zoom meeting 12PM - 26/02/2021 - reminder: Last read: 11:04, Feb 26
Read: 1 time
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[email address] (Minister Zahawi) - Request for Zoom conference - P. Millinder / A. Stansfeld / M. Young / K. Hollinrake / BEIS & Cabinet Office Ministers: Last read: 13:42, Mar 4
Read: 26 times
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[email address] (Minister Zahawi) - Scot Young estate & Times article: Insolvency firms put under investigation - Inter agency collusion: Last read: 13:42, Mar 4 - Read: 43 times
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[email address] - (Minister Lopez) - Scot Young estate & Times article: Insolvency firms put under investigation - Inter agency collusion Last read: 9:30, Mar 2 - Read: 8 times
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[email address] - (Minister Callanan) - Scot Young estate & Times article: Insolvency firms put under investigation - Inter agency collusion Last read: 2.02, Feb 22, Read: 57 times
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[email address] - (Minister Mordaunt) - Zoom meeting 12PM - 26/02/2021 - reminder Last read: 13:08, Mar 1 -
Read: 4 times
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[email address] - (Minister Milling) - Ministers concealing indictable offences & fraud against creditors - The intel report 13:55, Feb 26
Read: 1 time
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[email address] - (Minister Lopez) - Request for Zoom conference - P. Millinder / A. Stansfeld / M. Young / K. Hollinrake / BEIS & Cabinet Office Ministers: Last read: 11:22, Feb 24
Read 4 times
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STATUTORY DUTIES IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST:

All ministers are required, under section 3(1) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 to "uphold the continued independence of the judiciary." The Lord Chancellor has an additional duty, expressed in the oath of office, to "defend" that independence. This defence includes preventing undue Government influence on judicial decisions (including undue ministerial criticism of judicial decisions), ensuring adequate resources for the judiciary to exercise their functions and having regard to the public interest.

It is undue political interference, by the Law Ministers of the Attorney General’s Office, the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chancellor himself who are driving this judicial corruption.

REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT / DATA PROTECTION ACT 2018

1. We request to inspect all internal correspondences between officials and all Government departments in respect of that ministerial briefing report and The Times article referred to.

2. We request to see all instructions given in respect of the Ministerial Briefing Report and evidence of all action taken by the Cabinet Office and all replies in respect of the issues raised of judicial corruption and inter-agency collusion therein raised.

3. We request to inspect all documentation to establish what the Cabinet Office and its ministers are doing in the national public interest to perform on their statutory duties.

4. The scope of the request is from 12th February 2021 until 25th March 2021 and we request to inspect all information, in whichever form such information is available, including any oral recordings or handwritten notes, throughout that period in relation to the matters raised.

5. We request to inspect each and every single correspondence between ministers and officials within the Cabinet Office and BEIS to identify whether in fact ministers are performing on their duties under section 3(1) of the Constitutional Reform Act.
We have substantive reason to believe that ministers have adopted the “doctrine of willful blindness”. In doing so they are in breach of their duties and their oaths in office by concealing corruption driven by undue political interference (acting contrary to the law).

We ask that you observe the statutory timeframe for delivering on this request and that we are aware that there may be a charge for compiling this information. Please confirm what that fee is if there is and we would be happy to disburse it at once on account.

Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

Paul Millinder

INTELLIGENCE UK INTERNATIONAL S.A.

FOI Requests, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

BEIS ref: FOI2021/09421

Dear Mr Millinder

Thank you for your request for information which was received on 25th
March. Your request has been passed on to the appropriate official at the
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to process.

Your request is being considered under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and
we will reply at the latest by 26th April.

If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Information
Rights & Records Unit at BEIS. Please remember to quote the reference
number above in any future communications.

Kind regards,

Information Rights & Records Unit

Information Rights & Records Unit | Department for Business, Energy and
Industrial Strategy | 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET |
www.gov.uk/beis | [email address] |

FOI Requests, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

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Dear Mr Millender & Stop Corruption UK LLP,

 

Please find attached the response to your requests for information, our
references FOI2021/09421 & FOI2021/09667.

 

If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Information
Rights and Records Unit at BEIS.

 

Please remember to quote the reference numbers above in any future
communication.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Rights and Records Unit

 

 

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Stop Corruption UK LLP

Dear Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy,

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's handling of my FOI request 'Judicial and Insolvency Service corruption - The Ministerial Briefing Report'. We have numbered this review request for ease in reference:

1. We have emailed you with an article published in our website today in relation to the concealment of wrongdoing by corrupt public officials. That is, in reality the reason you refused our request. Your actions in doing so defeats the entire purpose of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is designed to allow the public to scrutinise the work of public bodies.

2. Your actions in refusal to provide transparency, being open about the issues raised in the Report is contrary to your mandatory duty to act according to the Nolan Principles. In refusing the request you stated:

(a) “Your requests and related correspondence make accusations against BEIS Ministers and Insolvency Service employees that are not substantiated. Ministers have received numerous emails where you have repeatedly accused them of various offences, including fraud“.

3. You do however know that our accusations are substantiated and the evidence we were requesting you disclose, in particular tab_28 proves it. That categoric proof (along with the finding from the court that the claims are false) is contained in the article within our website titled:

(a) "BEIS and the Cabinet concealing corruption and refusing disclosure"

4. It is in the national public interest that BEIS and the Insolvency Service are shunning their duties to creditors they purport to act in the interests of whilst sustaining fraudulent claims to keep assets beyond reach of those creditors. We refer to the £4.1 million fraudulent claim.

5. It is in the national public interest that ministers seek to conceal and suppress acts of corruption whilst coercing the judiciary to do the same, as it is that Ministers are breaching their duty to act with honesty, integrity, openness and to provide accountability for their actions.

6. It is likewise in the public interest that ministers are fulfilling their duties in law, under section 3(1) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 to "uphold the continued independence of the judiciary

7. It would take less than 1-hour to ask the Ministers who were emailed to produce the responses and follow ups to comply with the request.

8. You attempted to assert that we have made multiple requests. We made one request to each of the 3-public bodies concerned. That is not vexatious, but it is a request for each of the public bodies to provide the information requested, which is what the Act is designed to achieve.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/j...

Yours faithfully,

Stop Corruption UK LLP

FOI Requests, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

BEIS IR ref: IR2021/12058 Original FOI ref: FOI2021/09421

Dear Mr Millinder

Thank you for your request for an internal review which was received on
28th April. Your request has been passed on to the appropriate official at
the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to
process.

In line with the Information Commissioners guidance, internal reviews
should be responded to within 20 working days unless they are complex, in
which case a response should be sent within 40 working days. Please be
aware that this does not include weekends and bank holidays. The
Department aims to respond to requests for internal reviews as quickly as
possible. We hope to be in contact with you again shortly with a decision
on your request.

If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Information
Rights & Records Unit at BEIS. Please remember to quote the reference
number above in any future communications.

Kind regards,
Information Rights & Records Unit

Information Rights & Records Unit | Department for Business, Energy and
Industrial Strategy | 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET |
www.gov.uk/beis | [email address] |

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FOI Requests, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

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Dear Stop Corruption UK LLP,

Please find attached the response to your Internal Review, our references IR2021/12056 & IR2021/12058.

If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Information Rights and Records Unit at BEIS.

Please remember to quote the reference numbers above in any future communication.

Yours sincerely,

Information Rights and Records Unit

[BEIS request email]
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Data Protection Enquiry - BEIS, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

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For the attention of Mr Paul Millinder

 

Ref: BEIS FOI2021/09667

Ref: BEIS SAR 633 PM

 

UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (UK GDPR) – “RIGHT OF ACCESS
REQUEST”

 

Please refer to the attached Internal Review reply from the Department for
Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) dated 27 May 2021 responding
to your FOI requests to BEIS under references FOI2021/09421 &
FOI2021/09667.

 

Right of Access request

 

In this regard, your attention is drawn to segment 3 of your request under
FOI2021/09667 which reads:

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“3. We ask you to make tab_27, tab_28, the Times Article and the
transcript of Mr Millinder's call with Hannon (Official Receiver of the
Insolvency Service) public by disclosing that information with this
request. It is the right of the public to know that the Insolvency
Service, under BEIS, its CEO, Anthony Hannon, the Official Receiver of
London and a number of its staff have been defrauding creditors. Hannon
accepted that £4.1 million claim he knew to be false to keep assets beyond
the reach of creditors”.

 

To the extent that this segment of your FOI transcends to a request for
your personal data as defined in UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK
GDPR), an exemption under Section 40 (1) of FOI relating to personal
information applies. As the information that you’re requesting relates to
yourself, it therefore comes under the UK GDPR and not the FOIA.

 

On that basis, we are treating this part of your FOI request under the
“Right of access” to personal data” provisions at Article 15 of the UK
GDPR.

 

Additional information required

 

To enable us to process your request we would be grateful if you could
provide us with two forms of proof of your identity. This should include a
photocopy of the identification pages of your current passport or of a
current photo driving licence; and a copy of a current utilities (e.g.
electricity) bill, or other document which includes your name and current
address. This can be returned to you if required. Please let me know if
this causes any difficulties.

 

We require the above information under the UK GDPR “Right of Access”
provisions which includes that “where a data controller –

 

a) Reasonably requires further information –

 

(i) In order that the controller be satisfied as to the identity of the
individual making a request under subsection (1), or

(ii) To locate the information which that individual seeks, and

 

b) Has informed that individual of that requirement, the controller is not
obliged to comply with the request unless the controller is supplied with
that further information.

 

As soon as we receive this information, we will process your request.

BEIS Data Controller jurisdiction

You will wish to note that BEIS (as data controller) is only responsible
for the personal data we hold relating to you and additionally where
external organisations are processing personal data on our behalf. BEIS is
not required to contact external parties both at organisational and
individual level to satisfy SAR’s unless they meet this criterion.

Insolvency Service – Official Receiver Offices (OR’s)

In relation to the Insolvency Service – Official Receiver’s Offices (ORs)
they are not part of the BEIS data controllership. The ORs are totally
independent of BEIS and are separate data controllers in their own right.
The nucleus of your request includes “…and the transcript of Mr
Millinder's call with Hannon (Official Receiver of the Insolvency
Service).

Accepting the data protection status of ORs, it is tenable that the
information you are seeking to access is held by ORs. If you wish to
exercise your “right of access” under Article 15 of the UK GDPR to
information held by ORs you should email: [1][email address].

If you have any queries please do not hesitate contact the BEIS KIM Data
Protection and UK GDPR Team - [2][email address].

Kind regards

BEIS KIM Data Protection and UK GDPR Team

Corporate Services 
BEIS Digital, BEIS KIM Data Protection and UK GDPR Team, 1 Victoria
Street, London SW1H OET  

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