Exclusive: The Shepway Vox Team can announce that four council officers at Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been suspended due to contract and financial irregularities.
Only pending any final investigation will the council then decide what action to take against any of the individuals. While under investigation, they are deemed innocent of any misdemeanor.
We have already named Anthony Wallner (pictured below left) & Alastair Clifford (pictured below right), as for the other two names we do not know them yet, but we will.
We know both of these unnamed persons worked under Anthony Wallner and one was responsible for the Kitchen & Bathroom contract.
We know more investigations will be opening up and more names will more likely than not be under the spotlight and we strongly suspect more people will be suspended pending investigation.
We first began raising serious financial and contractual irregularities in May 2022. Charlotte Spendley the s151 officer, who has statutory responsiblity for all council money, officially announced two investigations at the Audit & Governance Committee on 08.06.22.
We will of course keep you updated. We have not approached the council for comment as when our public face did regarding Alastair Clifford, their response was:
“The Council does not comment on queries relating to individual officers.”
We doubt if that will have changed
The Shepway Vox Team
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