Staff at EON and British Gas jailed for accepting bribes as profits skyrocketed

Staff at EON and British Gas jailed for accepting bribes as profits skyrocketed

Two senior members of staff at EON and British Gas accepted over £2 million in bribes

Jail terms handed down in £2m energy sector bribery case - East Midlands Business Link

A bribery scheme involving £2 million in corrupt payments has resulted in jail time for two former energy sector insiders and several subcontractors, highlighting serious compliance failures in major UK energy firms. Mark Baker of Goole and Matthew Heyward of Newton Abbot, both originally from the East Midlands, were found guilty of accepting bribes over […]

‘Parasitic’ utility bosses jailed in £1.6m bribery scandal

standfirst: Two former senior managers at E.ON then British Gas have been jailed after being paid bribes to win energy contracts for a new town in east DevonMatthew Heyward, 51, from Newton Abbot and Mark Baker, 56, from Goole have both been jailed at Winchester Crown Court for taking bribes amounting to over £1.6m while working for E.ON and later British Gas.At the centre of the controversy was Cranbrook, a new town under construction where the…

Energy execs jailed in £2m bribery case

Two former senior energy bosses have been jailed for taking more than £2 million in bribes from contractors in a years-long fraud that tainted E.ON and British Gas Mark Baker, 56, from Goole, and Matthew Heyward, 51, from Newton Abbot, were sentenced at Winchester Crown Court. Baker was jailed for three years and ten months. Heyward got two and a half years. The pair abused their senior positions at E.ON and later British Gas to line their own p…