Ernst & Young has been operating in Bahrain for more than eighty years. The company works closely with the government in sectors including trade promotion and IT systems. It recently moved its training facility for professionals in the energy sector to Bahrain from Houston. None other than the US ambassador attended its grand opening. It has its own local cricket club. Ain't that cute.
In 1994, Ernst & Young appointed David Mellor as a senior adviser. According to the blurb on his gobshites for rent agency website, he’s still consulting with them. I’ll excerpt the relevant sentence, because I recall the same sentence on the website of his general agent, but when I looked a couple of minutes ago it seemed to have been scrubbed. Of course, I may have misremembered.
David consults clients including BAe Systems, Ernst & Young, and Britain’s biggest management consultants, Cap Gemini on issues as diverse as acquisition, legality and governance.
Today, David Mellor said that Bahrain was a stalwart friend of the UK. Maybe that should be friend of a friend.
Also a big arms-sales man, Mellor, wasn't he? So I imagine his connection with Bahrain must be even longer-standing than that.
Have E&Y just been criticised for yet another lax-oversight incident? I thought I saw something in the paper this morning but I didn't have time to look properly. I kind of assume anway that the big accountancy firms are basically there to facilitate dubious financial behaviour.
Posted by: ejh | February 18, 2011 at 12:46 PM
I think that that assumption is perhaps below the belt right now, since Richard has other stuff to respond to. After ten working days . . . bring it on.
Posted by: Chris Williams | February 18, 2011 at 05:44 PM