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December 23rd, 2011 
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Gareth Finighan
Last updated at 5:14 PM on 23rd December 2011
A Network Rail boss committed suicide with his wife after taking luxury bribes from two corrupt company executives, it emerged today.
Anthony Burgess, 45, was showered with tens of thousands of pounds in cash, along with Porsche car parts and five star holidays in return for deals with rail contractors Peter Sale and Anthony Whittington.
The rail manager and his wife Marian, 51, took their own lives after NR alerted police to the scam.
Anthony Burgess and his wife Marian were found dead at their home in Clavering, Essex
Mr Burgess was sacked from his £75,000-a-year job overseeing the refurbishment of company offices several months earlier following an internal inquiry.
Sale, 50, of Tadworth, Surrey, and Whittington, 48, of Abridge, Essex, both separately masterminded years of corruption with Mr Burgess.
Their convictions earlier this year can be reported after prosecutors confirmed reporting restrictions had been lifted after three other defendants were cleared of corruption.
Mr Burgess had been under investigation for alleged financial irregularities when he was found dead along with his wife at the couple’s home, in Clavering, Essex, in January 2009.
Sue Patten, head of central fraud at the Crown Prosecution Service, said Whittington provided trips to New York, Monaco and Rome and a cheque for £7,500 ‘as an inducement or reward to show favour to his business’ from Mr Burgess.
Sale provided the NR employee with more than £21,000, parts for a Porsche and parts for a new bathroom, she added.
All expenses paid: Mr Burgess and his wife were paid off by the contractors with cash and other perks, such as a trip to New York
Whittington’s firm, WWP Consultants was a building consultancy firm dealing with mechanical, electrical and public health engineering issues.
Police believe his corrupt professional relationship with Mr Burgess began when they met in 2001.
Mr Burgess, in his role as corporate offices manager at NR, was required to organise suppliers and contractors to carry out the required work.
Whittington’s gifts, which ranged from luxury holidays to Christmas hampers worth £500, were provided to Mr Burgess during 2006 in return for Mr Burgess ditching suppliers already employed to carry out project work for NR buildings.
‘Whittington also split project costs to come within the NR employee’s delegated authority limit and allow him to approve the project without further authority,’ a CPS spokesman said.
‘Whilst the NR employee was in post, there were 113 purchase orders submitted for WWP, all below £50,000 and totalling £2,152,331. WWP invoiced and were paid £1,739,991.70 by NR.’
Sale’s firm installed air conditioning units and provided electrical and mechanical engineering services.
‘By 2006 Sale Service was carrying out major works for Network Rail and accepted paying the employee £6,716 with the intention of favouring his company or as a reward,’ prosecutors added.
Value for money? Network Rail forked out more than £1.7million to contractor Anthony Whittington for jobs he secured through bribes
‘He also admitted to fraud by false representation where he submitted a duplicate invoice to Network Rail for services for which Sale Service had already been paid. In raising this invoice Mr Sale was representing that his company had done work when he knew this to be untrue.
‘Sale clearly knew that the relationship was corrupt and crossed the line at the time of the offence because he hid documents from the police.’
Whittington, a director of WWP Consultants, is serving a 12-month jail term after being sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court on September 2, while Sale, managing director of Sale Service and Maintenance Limited, had a 12-month sentence suspended for two years after admitting his part in the scam at Woolwich Crown Court.
Ms Patten said: ‘This prosecution shows that corruption is a serious criminal offence as well as being grossly unfair to hard-working and honest businesses up and down the country which rightly expect transparency and fair play in procurement exercises.
‘This was a thorough investigation carried out by British Transport Police after being contacted by Network Rail.’
Anthony Ash, 49, of Haywards Heath, East Sussex, and Gary Malkin, 54, of Brockenhurst, Hampshire were cleared of corruption by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court earlier this month while Jeremy Plastow, 43, of Altrincham, was found not guilty during an earlier trial at Blackfriars Crown Court.
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He must have known it was wrong but carried on doing it …the awful part is that his wife had to pay the price for what he did….. The old saying ‘money is the root of all evil ‘ still applies in modern times.
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What a dreadful end they were driven to by greed. I’m sure their families would much rather have them alive — albeit shamed and jailed — than dead. Killing themselves over relatively minor financial criminality seems such a tremendous overreaction when the consequences of their suicides will scar their families forever.
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Sad very sad –
CPS just do not lose your teeth now that you have found them.
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I foolishly believed that corruption in business had been almost eliminated, but this sad story proves it is alive and thriving. Let’s hope that anyone on the verge of accepting a bribe will read this and think again. No bribe can ever be worth the loss of a life.
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Tip of the iceberg in our Country!!
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My old mum used to say that even if you haven’t got two hapennies to rub together, it you can hold your head up and look anyone in the eye because you’re honourable, that is worth more than any amount of money. How true that is.
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Could this be the tip of yet another iceberg.?
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Sad story but does show money isn’t everything.
Better to be honest than trying to cheat others.
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not really worth taking your life over even though you have been found out
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My sympathies are with those left behind.
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