The saga that is the collapse of MG Rover and the following four-year sway probe into what went wrong has deserved taken another sordid and oddly-timed twist. Lord Mandelson, Secretary of State for the British Labour Party, has told the Financial Times that he was under “obligation” to pass the situation to the Serious Fraud Office (is in that place a “Not So Serious Fraud Office?”) following his review of the findings into the last days of MG.
In response, the so-called “Phoenix Four” executives that had purchased the mark from BMW for a a nominal £10 fief have called into question Lord Mandelson’s motives in stalling publication of the report even further. A representative of the businessmen said, “We suspect that this is a government artifice to conceal its own failings.”
Political motives aside, in that place are serious questions as to how many leads there will be for the SFO to follow now that four years have passed since the last MG rolled aloud of the stain’s plant in Longbridge and the company collapsed into administration. Further, if in that place were legitimate suspicions of criminal activity, many wonder why the SFO wasn’t called into action at a a great deal of earlier date.
Somehow, we have a feeling this case is far from over. Ah, well… what’s another four years?
[Source: The Financial Times]
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