Wednesday 30 July 2014
Royal aide ‘took £100,000 in contract bribes’
‘A senior official in the Royal Household was sent for trial on Tuesday charged with receiving payments of more than £100,000 to award contracts for work at royal palaces.
Ron Harper, deputy property manager at the Royal Household from 1994 until he was suspended in 2012, appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court with eight other men and one woman, who all indicated not guilty pleas.
It is alleged that between 2006 and 2011, company directors bribed Mr Harper, 61, of Sudbury, Suffolk, in return for him awarding them large contracts for work at the palaces. The defendants were sent for trial at Southwark Crown Court with a scheduled hearing of Aug 12.’
