A private harm agency run by a Lamborghini-loving boss spent a £300,000 council grant serving to to pimp their places of work with a pool desk and TVs.
Dr Imran Akram, who based Asons Solicitors, has been accused of securing the taxpayer-funded money by threatening to maneuver his enterprise out of Bolton.
His enterprise, which specialises in immigration circumstances and private harm claims, gained £300,000 in direction of the £600,000 value of refurbishing their new headquarters.
Nevertheless it has posted a sequence of Twitter photos showcasing the brand new places of work and displaying employees taking part in pool and taking part in the Fifa soccer recreation on their communal PS4.
Additionally they put in a 'hangout zone' for workers with a flatscreen TV so staff can chill out throughout their working day.
Row: Dr Imran Akram, who based Asons Solicitors, has been accused of securing the taxpayer-funded £300,000 by threatening to maneuver his enterprise out of Bolton
Plush: The agency posted a sequence of Twitter photos showcasing the brand new places of work and displaying employees taking part in pool
Gaming at work: Employees Jack and Semera 'battle it out' on a recreation of Fifa on the corporate's PS4, based on the corporate's tweet
Chillaxing: Additionally they put in a 'hangout zone' for workers with a flatscreen TV so staff can chill out throughout their working day.
Dr Akram's love for quick vehicles has sparked criticism.
In 2014 it emerged on social media that his £180,000 Lamborghini Huracan was his sixth supercar in 4 years.
Dr Akram's love for quick vehicles has induced stress with former workers - right here is certainly one of six Lamborghinis he stated he purchased for himself
A YouTube video of him revving his Lamborghini at a rally was additionally posted on YouTube - he has additionally posed with Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn.
On his LinkedIn web page he described himself as a former taxi driver and postmaster who went into private harm claims, based on Authorized Cheek.
One unnamed employee who spent a yr there stated in a web-based evaluate of the corporate: 'Imran cease flashing your cash in folks's faces. Be extra humble and pay your workers an precise wage that they'll stay on and deal with your workers like precise people'.
Final week the chief government of Bolton Council admitted it ought to 'most likely not' have given Asons £300,000 utilizing 'emergency powers'.
It got here because the council expects to search out £43million of cuts this yr. The corporate declare the grant would have been made anyway.
Critics of the grant resolution have requested what due diligence was finished, pointing to the corporate's 2015 accounts which recommend the agency made a £892,681 loss.
Councillor David Greenhalgh, chief of the Tory Conservative opposition in Bolton, instructed the Legislation Gazette: 'Lastly an admission from Bolton Council's chief government that the usage of emergency powers to grant £300,000 to Asons Solicitors was 'most likely' not the fitting approach to have awarded the grant.
'And an additional admission that conferences behind closed doorways befell that assured the grant pending State Assist approval; a assure of £300,000 of public cash given a nod and a wink with out going by any official council course of. It is a disgraceful abuse of energy.'
A YouTube video of him revving his Lamborghini at a rally was additionally posted on YouTube - he has additionally posed with Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn
And now it has emerged that Asons is planning to chop jobs.
Tory Cllr Martyn Cox instructed Bolton Information: 'A number of firms make redundancies for various causes however this definitely provides to the image of Asons' monetary place.
'From the accounts we all know that they're shedding cash and are in dispute with HMRC and now we study of extra redundancies
'It's definitely unclear what due diligence was carried out by the council earlier than they granted this cash'.
Dr Akram was unavailable for remark - however a spokesman for his enterprise stated: 'We didn't "threaten" to depart the city and as such, we didn't try and extort funds from the council. We have been contemplating our relocation choices, and Bolton Council made ourselves probably the most beneficial provide in comparison with elsewhere, which included grant help to convey the workplace premises as much as specification.
'Asons aren't in monetary problem. We sit up for publishing our yr finish accounts quickly'.
On Dr Akram's love of vehicles the spokesman stated: 'The Lamborghinis have been a private funding. Imran doesn't presently personal one'.
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