You missed the MD saying "We are a frugal company. We like to keep an eye on every penny we spendA quality piece of reporting there from the Plymouth Herald. Apparently Thompson, one of the men prosecuted, boasted an expensive wash and a nice car. It didn't embellish so I can only assume the attention was lavished on his barnet although I am aware of extravagant bathing rituals. Who knows?
They then went on to lift the lid on goings on behind the factory gates. Some clients flew in by helicopter, some were from Eastern Europe and a fence had been been built so that it wasn't necessary for visitors to pass MOD inspections every time they wanted to see how their new baby was coming on.
On the plus side the company did have some nice customers as well including one of the singers from Abba.
The company carefully protect their public image to the point where a derelict yacht was cleaned up and the job not posted on Youtube, Facebook or Twitter.
When people come to the factory to see how their expensive motor yacht is progressing they are occasionally treated to lunch.
If employees were given a bottle of wine they could keep it but if they were given a box of wine they would have to leave it in a public space. The article didn't elaborate as to whether that was because only cheap crappy wine comes in a box or not. Neither did it cover cases of wine which presumably would be distributed amongst 12 employees to get round the 1 bottle per head ruling
What was interesting though was to see that Princess had invested £10 million on deep water moorings for their larger craft. Clearly someone is taking a long term view.
Sentencing is to follow and the Herald suggested the only football team one of the men is likely to play for is a prison team.
Henry
I expect it was a short queue.
A former project manager at Azzurri Communications who stole £1.3m from the integrator has been ordered to pay back less than 10 per cent....and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in the clink.
Agreed. Not only hard, but also wrong imho, in more ways than one.
Yes that is absolutely correct
A former project manager at Azzurri Communications who stole £1.3m from the integrator has been ordered to pay back less than 10 per cent....and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in the clink.
"I hope this sends out the message that crime doesn't pay," he added.
So, he'll do about 2 years in a low category (maybe even open) prison and gets to keep just over £1.2M. I'm not sure that does send out that message.
I wonder how much the Princess boys will have to give back?
I don't think he got to "keep" anything. My understanding was that all his assets were ordered to be surrendered and given to the company. The remaining money was presumably spent on a lavish lifestyle.
In this instance any money would presumably be paid to the insurers who covered the loss according to the article.
Henry
