So far, only Radio Scotland’s John Beattie has tackled the company, responsible for the infection control failure in the Skye care home where everyone is infected and six, so far, have died. It hasn’t appeared anywhere else across BBC Scotland’s output.
Surely their Disclosure team should be having a go at this? They could make up for their previous ill-informed report where they sided with the big BMW driving manager, of a Lanarkshire care home owned by Florida-based Bluebird Care to then blame the Scottish Government for not supplying PPE to a massive US corporation charging large amounts to care for our elderly.
Reader Glen Munro has helpfully directed me to information on HC-One, owned by a US corporation until 2018 but now registered in the Cayman Islands.
Come on BBC – old folk dying in care homes owned by two giant dodgy corporations? Big audience?
They haven’t so far so here’s some starter information:
Although HC-One has declared a loss in every year except one since its creation in 2011, investors received cash dividends of £42.3m in 2017 and £6.2m in 2018. HC-One has paid no corporation tax in that time, but instead received net tax credits of £6.5m since its reorganisation in 2014. The group’s auditors are infamous offshore tax-avoidance experts Deloitte. HC-One’s structure “means investors and executives are likely to have received much greater sums as only one subsidiary, FC Skyfall Upper Midco Ltd, files consolidated accounts”. Court Cavendish, owned by Dr Chai Patel (90%) and his family trust (10%), has received £25m in management fees.
https://www.wikipolitiks.org/wiki/HC-One_Ltd
The company was put up for sale in May 2018 for £1 billion. Its immediate owner is Libra Intermediate, based in Jersey and the ultimate owner is FC Skyfall LP, based in the Cayman Islands. It has a complex corporate structure, with 50 companies, six of which are registered offshore either in the Cayman Islands or Jersey and a further five in the UK as foreign entities. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation were about £130 million in 2017.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
“The group’s auditors are infamous offshore tax-avoidance experts Deloitte. ”
Deloitte is also running the organisation of covid test results. The Guardian says this.
“The alarm was sounded when doctors and nurses complained that test results never arrived, or that they had been sent someone else’s results. In other cases, the test centre, which is about 12 miles south-west of central London, was unable to ring through with the diagnosis because of a failure to record correct phone numbers.
In an email written in early April, and seen by the Guardian, the chief executive of Epsom hospital said: “Deloitte who have been commissioned by the Department of Health directly for this are not running this as well as we would like … [We] are asking whether we can take over the running of the Chessington centre because we really need it to work much better than it is.”
It is understood that the request to remove the firm was made in the first week of April, but that it was set aside after performance improved.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/hospitals-sound-alarm-over-privately-run-test-centre-in-surrey
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When failings of The Herald and The Scotsman are identified we get the actual reporters ( I won’t call them journalists) identified. However, when it comes to many of the BBC Scotland failings they are omisions so there is no reporter to identify. In such cases what about identifying the person or persons responsible for deciding to omit?
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Dr Chai Patel was a massive Labour Party donor during the Blairite Regime.
See “Cash for honours scandal”.
As a result there is no way the Comrades of the ‘Byres Road Collective’ of BLiS NUJ will touch this.
In the same way they won’t highlight ongoing PFI Scandal of McConnel and Broon!
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In such cases which are the new accepted
And perverse norm
Their motto if they have one Is
Oh what webs we shall weave
When we plan to deceive
All in order for fat dividends to receive
A new motto by legislation should be imposed upon them and incorporated
Into the Companies articles of association
Along the lines of
Aye owe Aye owe Aye owe
So it is off to work we must go
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You will find that the shareholders that benefit from this and much more paid for by the U.K. taxpayer through privatisation and PFI are those that sit on the benches of Westminster and the House of Lords.
Newcomers will be offered entrance to this insider club if they don’t rock the boat.
It’s how MPs are changed from keen determined questioning newly elected Individuals to quiet mice never seen never heard .
We the public always wonder why we don’t know half the people that represent us and we wonder why the ones we do know who start out full of gusto end up as quiet little mice never seen never heard.
Here is the answer.
Easy money
Corrupt to the core
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Sam Polling is neither scared nor stupid. It must be instructions from higher up the ladder.
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The UK is one of the most corrupt regimes in the world today and always has been but since Thatcher their greed grows and grows knowing no bounds
Never in the field of Human history
Has so much been taking from many
By so few
Little wonder the lackeys in MSM
all too compliant in playing their insidious games knowing full well they will be flung a few crumbs from their masters table
Let ye who cuts the cake accept the smallest portion
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