A former Ministry of Defence (MoD) official has been convicted of misconduct in public office for accepting secret payments and gifts. He received cash payments and cars while working at the MoD and seconded to a defence contractor. He used his position to commission reports from offshore consultants and received a total of £702,800. The official also received two cars worth £32,906 and avoided tax on the money.
A former Ministry of Defence (MoD) official has been jailed after he was convicted of misconduct in public office for taking secret payments and gifts. Jeffrey Cook, 67, received around £70,000 in cash payments and cars while employed at the Government department and seconded to a defence contractor called Paradigm . At the time of the offence, MoD rules banned employees from accepting external paid employment, Southwark Crown Court was told on Friday.
It heard that Cook was in charge of his department’s finances and between 2004 and 2008 committed misconduct in a public office by using his position to commission reports from offshore consultants. He commissioned ME Consultants Limited, within which he had personal contacts, to create reports for the MoD between 2005 and 2006. The reports were on the MoD’s SANGCOM project, which provided military communications equipment to the Saudi Arabian National Guard, the Serious Fraud Office said. A total of £702,800 was sent from the Ministry of Defence to ME Consultants’ Swiss bank account for the reports, the court was told.He received the money in multiple forms including cars and a series of cash payments to his and his wife’s Barclays bank account.Within that period, the official, who started working for the MoD in 1975, also received two cars worth a total of £32,906. Mr Justice Simon Picken added that Cook “augmented” his profit by not declaring the money to HMRC and avoiding ta
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