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SFO arrests four over £44m insulation fraud

The Serious Fraud Office has arrested four people over allegations of fraud linked to the Energy Company Obligation 4 (ECO4) involving the companies Warmfront, JJ Crump and South Coast Insulation Services.

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" The allegations are that the companies were involved in a sophisticated conspiracy across the country to undermine the government energy efficiency scheme by submitting claims where little or no work was undertaken. One of the companies involved, Warmfront, was sold in 2024 and is now under new management not connected to the investigation.

It is suspected that energy companies were defrauded of at least £44 million in this way. The SFO is seeking information regarding the case. " all caused by virtually zero oversight of the whole sorry scheme

Three firms investigated over government retrofit jobs in £44m fraud probe

Serious Fraud Office has arrested four people in connection with alleged fraud on failed ECO 4 scheme

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" It comes four months after the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) called for the SFO to investigate the failure of the scheme and the parallel Great British Insulation Scheme, which were found by the National Audit Office (NAO) to have a failure rate of 98%.

Almost all homes fitted with external insulation under the schemes need repairs to fix issues including damp and mould in what PAC chair Geoffrey Clifton-Brown described as the most “catastrophic fiasco” he had seen in 12 years of sitting on the committee. "

 

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Tilbury Douglas robot walks, collects data

Tilbury Douglas has put a humanoid robot to work on live construction sites, using it for data collection.

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'til someone knocks it off the scaffold or gives it a tap with a 360 bucket