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Sorry venator, this company got a huge tranche of new work from the Coalition Government. It was in late 2010 that they employed an internal auditor who's evidence is the meat in this report.
// With hundreds of millions of pounds in taxpayer-funded contracts, it seemed like A4e was on course to win yet another tranche of lucrative work from the new Coalition government to help get jobs for unemployed people.
The prosperity of A4e may have pleased Mrs Harrison, but it was a “surprise” for Eddie Hutchinson.
The experienced accountant was appointed head of internal audit at A4e in the autumn of 2010, just before Downing Street lauded his boss’s “proven track record”.
Within weeks of starting, his attention was drawn to what he described as an “ever-increasing volume of frauds”, sometimes more than one potential case a day, Mr Hutchinson said in evidence to Parliament.
After seven months at A4e, Mr Hutchinson said in evidence that he was convinced he had seen “unethical behaviour, mismanagement, inadequate corporate governance, and risk management, and excessive payments in the form of salaries and bonuses”. He has told MPs: “In my professional view, it was systemic.”