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