Richard Dannatt
General Sir Richard Dannatt served as the Chief of the General Staff from 2006 to 2009, after which he was appointed Chairman of the Royal United Services Institute.[1]
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Sunday Times sting operation
In 2012, Dannatt was one of a number of retired senior army officers targeted in a sting operation by Sunday Times journalists posing as representatives of a Korean drone manufacturer.[2]
Dannatt reportedly discussed a fee of £100,000 for two days work a month:
- Dannatt wanted to know that the drone he would be pushing was a good bit of kit. With that proviso, he was happy to tap up Bernard Gray, the civilian chief of defence procurement on their behalf.[3]
Dannatt told the Sunday Times that he represented Capita Symonds, which was bidding for a £400 million contract to manage Ministry of Defence estates, and that he had managed to get himself a place next to Permanent Secretary Jon Thompson at a dinner for the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association, on the strength of the fact that they had both been to St Lawrence College.[4]
After being confronted by the Sunday Times, Dannatt said he had not been paid by Capita Symonds and did not have a contract with them. The company said he had not been instructed to lobby for bid.[5]
Peers cleared of breaching the lobby code
From ITV News:
- Two peers accused of boasting about the way they lobbied top officials to secure military contracts did not break any rules, according to a Whitehall investigation.
- The report cleared the former Head of the Army, Lord Dannatt and former Chief of the Defence staff Lord Stirrup. It dismissed a complaint that they used their influence to secure the contracts for private firms.[6]
External Resources
- Marie Woolf, Gordon Brown blocks peerage for army chief Sir Richard Dannatt, Sunday Times, 11 April 2010.
Notes
- ↑ Sir Richard Dannatt appointed RUSI Chairman, RUSI, 16 June 2009.
- ↑ Galloping Greed of the old warhorses, Insight, Sunday Times, 14 October 2012, pp.13-15.
- ↑ Galloping Greed of the old warhorses, Insight, Sunday Times, 14 October 2012, p.13.
- ↑ Galloping Greed of the old warhorses, Insight, Sunday Times, 14 October 2012, p.13.
- ↑ Galloping Greed of the old warhorses, Insight, Sunday Times, 14 October 2012, p.13.
- ↑ 'Peers cleared of breaching the lobby code', ITV News, 13 June 2013.
