Damian Hastie
banner
damianhastie.bsky.social
Damian Hastie
@damianhastie.bsky.social
Founder of Open & Candid "An investigative platform" Sunday Times

Exposing Corruption, Govt Contracts, the Exclusive Plymouth Brethren and much more.

www.openandcandid.com
Another court case relating to COVID contracts trundling along.

Govt cancelled £120 million contract. Now spending £450k on lawyers.

Interestingly the local MP David Davis visited the company delighted with the contract award at the time.
May 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Over the years I have covered the PPE & Testing contracts won globally by the Exclusive Plymouth Brethren Hales family and their followers. I estimated it was over £3 billion globally. I recently found this on one of their own websites, which would suggest I may have been somewhat conservative!
February 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Unusual to redact the sub contractor(s) on this contract. I am pretty confident I know the identity of one of these sub contractors. Which if I am correct would be quite a story.
January 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Covid Contract winning 2San, a company that The Age in Melbourne, Sydney Morning Herald and I have reported on previously, appear to be rather unlucky with Fire, Fraud & Flood.

Leading to a £10 million loss. 🤔
November 28, 2024 at 1:13 AM
November 16, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Who owns Liaoning Zhongqiao?

Surprisingly I found on the Chinese company database that the major shareholder was a company called Fulu Properties Limited in Australia

However this company didn't exist in Australia. There was however a company called Fulu Property PTY ltd
November 16, 2024 at 6:50 PM
The next is that on the award note is shows the LZOE address in China. However on the contract, the supplier address is a PO Box on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
November 16, 2024 at 6:50 PM