Ex-Mayor Lutfur Rahman Hides In The Shadows

Lutfur Rahman is attempting to avoid public scrutiny by only canvassing in the evening and delaying…

Puru Miah Resignation Exposes The Dark Heart of Biggs Labour

Puru Miah has resigned as a Labour councillor exposing the dark heart of the Biggs Labour…

Borough cop used marked police car to steal drugs cash

A PC based in the Tower Hamlets and Hackney Borough Command Unit (BCU) has been dismissed…

Poplar Papers 16 – Organised corruption in Tower Hamlets council

Operation of organised crime networks within London Borough of Tower Hamlets council between 2010 and 2020.

Poplar Papers 14 – How to earn your council pay while banged up in jail

A Tower Hamlets Youth Service worker received his full council pay while serving a three month…

Poplar Papers 13 – Secret money laundering system funding extremism

In July 2015 the Wapping Mole was told of a covert money laundering computer system inside…

Poplar Papers – 12 Easy ways to feed at the corruption trough

Our work over the years and the missing parts of the corruption jigsaw found in the…

Poplar Papers 11 – Intermission and the dismal story so far

A quick recap of the weary, dismal and depressing story that is the Poplar Papers so…

Poplar Papers 10 – Organised corruption networks inside LBTH

'Link charts' show connections between LBTH employees and the organisations established for the purpose of criminal…

Poplar Papers 9 – How Tower Hamlets Council avoids public scrutiny

That Tower Hamlets Council can avoid public or media scrutiny exposes the lack of oversight by…

Poplar Papers 8 – Youth Service Timeline 2003-2020

In 2012, under Mayor Rahman, Tower Hamlets Youth Service was moved from one council directorate to…

Poplar Papers 7 The £470,865 Youth Service credit card bill

Between 1st April 2013 and 30th October 2014, 27 card holders in Tower Hamlets Council's Youth…

Poplar Papers 6 – Abzal Ali, Interim Head of Youth Service

Mr Abzal Ali authorised £414,726 of AP1 payments during the 15 months for which we have…

Poplar Papers 5 – AP1 Vouchers Table of Payments

Details of AP1 payments authorised by five members of Tower Hamlets Youth Service.

Poplar Papers 4 – £1,288,815 AP1 Voucher Payments

In a 15 month period five members of Tower Hamlets Youth Service authorised AP1 Voucher payments…

Poplar Papers 3 – Youth Service investigation 2019 puzzle

Tower Hamlets Council's Youth Service still seems to be in trouble. Nothing new there then. Odd…

Poplar Papers 2 – The Summer Youth Programme 2016

Clean Up Board allegation CU 023 was that the procurement process for the LBTH Summer Youth…

Poplar Papers 1 – “The finish was more important than the task”

Today we start to publish the results of our investigations into the Poplar Papers. In this…