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Labour MPs demand answers over Clearsprings’ mystery offshore payments

UAE firm that was allegedly paid for consultancy work says it has never heard of the asylum accommodation provider

By Indra Warnes, Mark Wilding and Harriet Clugston
Labour MPs demand answers over Clearsprings’ mystery offshore payments
Questions have been raised over an offshore payment from Clearsprings, which has Home Office contracts worth £1bn to run asylum accommodation | Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images
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MPs have called on the government to launch an urgent investigation into millions of pounds in offshore transactions made by one of the country’s largest asylum accommodation providers.

Clearsprings’ parent company has reported paying £17.1m in consultancy fees to Bespoke Strategy Solutions (BSS), a United Arab Emirates-based consultancy firm that it says is owned at least in part by Clearsprings founder Graham King.

But the only firm with that name on the UAE corporate register told Liberty Investigates and openDemocracy that it did not receive the payments and has no link to King or Clearsprings, which holds Home Office contracts estimated to be worth several billion pounds.

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