AN anti-fraud investigator has claimed he was sacked from an East London council for being WHITE. Mark Edmunds, 55, is suing scandal-hit Tower Hamlets for £529,000 in a landmark race and sex discri…
AN anti-fraud investigator has claimed he was sacked from an East London council for being WHITE.
He claims he was removed from his £63,000-a-year job because he was "a white man investigating a service predominantly staffed by Bangladeshi employees where the allegations of corruption were predominantly against Bangladeshi employees". A witness statement submitted to the tribunal claimed he was faced with "threats and intimidation" from ex-gang members as he probed
"Additionally, while conducting investigations I was regularly accused of being a racist and a bully, when all I was doing was my job, in an attempt to intimidate me and derail the investigation process."
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