It then hacked into residents’ computers by sending them emails with attachments purporting to contain the results of tests undertaken on waste from the landfill. On 12 February, Mr Kirby met employees of the detective agency and accepted their proposal to tap phones and hack into computers. The directors agreed to hire a detective agency to find out who was responsible. Miranda Moore QC, prosecuting, said the Agency was concerned about inappropriate waste deposit and treatment at the site and decided to investigate compliance with its pollution prevention and control permit.Īt a meeting of Atlantic Waste directors in early 2004, Mr Kirby raised concerns about break-ins and "arson attacks" at the site and said he suspected residents’ groups. Over the winter of 2003/04, the Environment Agency received many complaints about odour from Kings Cliffe. Mr Kirby received £50 million in cash and Augean shares worth £15 million in the deal. The sites were bought by Augean in 2005 for £80 million (See ENDS Report 359, p 22 ). At the time, Atlantic Waste ran two landfills near Peterborough: Kings Cliffe, a hazardous waste site, and Thornhaugh, mainly for non-hazardous waste but with one cell for non-reactive hazardous waste. The court heard that Mr Kirby, from Haslemere, Surrey, hired a London-based detective agency in February 2004. They were both ordered to pay £2,173 compensation to BT and £6,500 in costs. Atlantic Waste’s former marketing director Adam Share got three months.Įach had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause modification of computer equipment and conspiracy to intercept communications unlawfully at the same court last September - both contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977. Gerrard could not be reached for comment.Appearing at Southwark Crown Court on 17 January, Adrian Kirby was sentenced to six months in prison.
Separately, Clyde & Co also dropped Gerrard as a client in proceedings brought forward by ENRC.Ī spokesperson for Dechert LLP said: “The allegations against the Firm are denied and we are defending the claim.”
This week, lawyers from Enyo Law also dropped Gerrard as a client in the hacked email case, as boutique law firm Charles Fussell & Co instead took the London firm’s place. The proposal comes as former Metropolitan police officer Gerrard faces a raft of legal troubles over claims he hacked emails, leaked documents, and took part in efforts to kidnap and torture a Jordanian lawyer. The Emirati fund said the $1m settlement offer “significantly exceeds the maximum amount that Mr Azima could ever recover in his counterclaim,” as it said the Iranian-American tycoon has not yet responded to its proposal. The UAE sovereign fund claimed that in light of the ENRC ruling it has also come to believe its officers “may have been the victims of dishonest and unscrupulous former third-party advisers who have taken steps to advance their own interests for their own gains, and at Rakia’s expense”. The fund said it had decided to pull out of the case due to believing that the businessman’s counterclaim is “being funded by third parties who are not concerned about hacking of Mr Azima’s emails but are supporting this litigation as part of a wider campaign against Neil Gerrard and Dechert”.
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The letter comes after Azima sued Rakia, Gerrard, and City law firm Dechert over use of hacked emails in a multi-million-pound fraud trial brought forward by the UAE fund – after the Emirati fund lost millions through investments in Azima’s ventures to start a pilot school and hotel. In a letter seen by City A.M., the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA) said it is dropping its lawsuit against Iranian-American airline magnate Farhad Azima, as it offered to pay the businessman $1m to settle his counterclaim over use of hacked emails in a fraud trial involving both Dechert and its ex-senior partner Neil Gerrard. The fund’s efforts to distance itself from Dechert’s former head of white-collar crime comes after a High Court last month said Gerrard had leaked confidential information about Kazakhstani mining company ENRC to the press, in a bid to bring in more work and maximise his fees. Montreux Jazz Festival: Is it really even a jazz festival? Whatever – it’s brilliantĮmbattled City lawyer Neil Gerrard suffered another blow this week, after his former client, an Emirati sovereign fund, turned on the ex-Dechert partner, after offering to pay $1m to settle its case with a powerful Iranian-American business tycoon.
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