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Police Out of Control (or Oversight) - Part 6: This Scandal Has Become a Lot Bigger Than Sirius 'Open Source'

Series parts:

  1. New Series: The End of Sirius Open Source
  2. Sirius Open Source Cannot Retain Staff and Clients (Many of the Remaining Ones Leave the Company)
  3. Police Out of Control (or Oversight) - Part 3: Action Fraud and Reports of Sirius Fraud
  4. Police Out of Control (or Oversight) - Part 4: The Pokémon Village of Sirius 'Open Source' and British Government
  5. previous part
  6. YOU ARE HERE ☞ This Scandal Has Become a Lot Bigger Than Sirius 'Open Source'


Video download link | md5sum f4f239686d76f30d562cc44bb70cb997 Serious Scandal by Sirius Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: What started as fraud committed by one company (since 2011 if not earlier) is becoming a blunder and major embarrassment to high-profile clients that are government agencies, in effect employing programmers and system administrators via a contractor that grossly underpays workers while secretly defrauding them (stealing money from them)

THE previous part spoke of the brain drain that had reduced Sirius 'Open Source' to almost nothing; even before pension fraud was exposed (we broke the story here this past spring) the company had almost nothing left in terms of physical assets, monetary assets, human resources, and clients. It's just milking what's left of contracts signed or renewed last year.



"...Sirius received millions of pounds from the British government and the government oughtn't look the other way when people who worked on government computer systems become victims of employment crimes and embezzlement or just plain old fraud."The really obnoxious thing is the two-faceted 'coverup' (to use the term loosely) by entities that should know better and should do better. If the British authorities are so desperate to save face and spare themselves negative publicity, then they should hurry up and act, showing strength of law, accountability, and drastic consequences. Instead, based on the lack of interaction (also my Member of Parliament is being ignored), it certainly seems like this scandal will just deepen, implicating a growing network of facilitators and enablers. This scandal isn't about just Sirius anymore; Sirius received millions of pounds from the British government and the government oughtn't look the other way when people who worked on government computer systems become victims of employment crimes and embezzlement or just plain old fraud.

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