Following revelation of the CPUK’s slave labor scandal during jubilee celebrations marking the British Queen’s 60th year on the throne, the security company came under renewed pressure after it emerged its founder has criminal conviction.
Meanwhile, former British Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott questioned checks on her and also her firm when it was awarded a £850,000 contract to provide fire safety staff at the Olympics 2012.
Prescott also expressed concerns whether the company was abusing its access to cheap labor in order to win Olympics contracts.
Insisting that Olympic organizers “must now urgently explain what due diligence they did of CPUK,” Prescott added, “The public would rather see trained fire officers on call than inexperienced and poorly trained young people.”
However, Prince said, “I have nothing to hide in my businesses, and the only thing that John Prescott has brought up is an 18-year-old incident which I witnessed and didn’t deal with very well.”
Earlier on June 4, 2012, reports revealed that coach-loads of long-term unemployed jobseekers were taken to London to work as unpaid stewards during celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s ascension to the British throne.
Two days later on June 6, the Prospects Group charity said that it was investigating the actions by the security firm, following allegations the jobseekers were forced to sleep in the cold under London Bridge before the British Queen’s Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.
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