At Southwark Crown Court, Arben Hysa was convicted of bribing three Keltbray site managers to secure labour supply contracts for London-based Tony Demolition Workers Ltd worth 拢15m.
Bribes totalling more than 拢600,000 were paid by Hysa between 2012 and 2018 to three Keltbray managers: Michael McCarthy, Simon Lacey, and John Burke.
The Keltbray three were jailed for receiving the bribes, which represented a 鈥榖reach of trust鈥� in respect of their obligations to their employer Keltbray.聽
Hysa, Burke and McCarthy were all sentenced to three and half years in prison; Lacey was sentenced to two years.
Andrew Cant from the Crown Prosecution Service said: 鈥淐orruption in the construction industry distorts competition between companies and makes the UK a less attractive marketplace for domestic and foreign investors. McCarthy, Lacey, and Burke ignored the rules in respect of their obligation to act in the interests of their employer Keltbray when dealing with external contractors by accepting significant sums of money from Arben Hysa.
鈥淭he CPS will now commence confiscation proceedings in order to reclaim the ill-gotten gains of the defendants鈥� crimes.鈥�
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