It is the opinion of this author that Eran Bauer,
subject to full Lincolnshire County Council Standards Investigation, secretly desired to own the Ashby FTTH network from the start by working to undermine and asset strip a Community Interest Company with “Sweet FA” Furqan Alamgir new employee (who by doing so has put himself into repudiatory breach of the NextGenUs Shareholders Agreement) Simon Davison.
Bauer is being investigated as regards an email he sent to Barclays Capital Finance in January 2012, cc Simon Davison, then a director of Fibrestream Ltd, suspended from employment on 10th January 2012
After the remarkable “28 MinuteSale!” events earlier that day, I spoke to the joint administrator, John Butler around 530PM on Friday 13th April 2012 and reminded him that whilst the company would provide all relevant information at its disposal promptly on the next business day to any bona-fide purchasers of NextGenUs UK CIC network assets, he must understand that due to extensive hacking of the network, subsequent to the email system being compromised and risking providing unauthorised access to those responsible to confidential customer lists, administration passwords, there was only incomplete information available.
Furthermore that elements of the network had been “sold off” without company authorisation by
MSDist, an equipment supplier from whom
Davison and Brass ordered some £14k of radios and other hardware then stashed away
Or
may have ordered as no serial numbers or MAC addresses were provided with these alleged orders, only long afterwards when the business asked MSDist for this information when it became apparent that Davison and Brass had misappropriated the stock concerned.
It is important to note that the consequential commercial impact on the business of Davison and Brass behaviour was severe as not only did the stock have to be paid for, there was no hardware to recover either installation costs or ongoing service revenues.
Also noteworthy is that MSDist clearly had access to confidential company data as they attempted to claim equipment after the fact that was identified against actual customers addresses perhaps provided by ex-employees see
http://nextgenus.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/keep-calm-and-carry-on.html
http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Police-called-Hull-broadband-customers-cut-wake/story-15858047-detail/story.html reported some outrageous events later on Friday 13th April 2012 which bear examination.
According to the article:
Internet phone company Connexin bought the assets and pledged to keep everyone online.
But the new firm says it was unable to acquire access codes in east Hull and effectively had to hack into its own systems to keep people online. Then the service began to crash and Connexin called the police.
The NextGenUs UK CIC community broadband network was in fact operating normally providing service to customers in Hull and East Yorkshire, the Company had advised the joint administrator John Butler that it was happy to provide what information it had as regards network passwords and customer data to any bona-fide purchaser and that was at 6PM Friday 13th April 2012, after close of business.
In other words, there was no good reason for connexin to be as Alamgit puts it “hack into its own systems” and thereby cause the network to crash through their ineptitude, or worse.
Yours truly then retired to bed at the end of
an astonishing 28 minute saleday, only to be awoken by Humberside Police at 9:30PM who it subsequently emerged had been goaded in over-reacting by hysterical FaceBook posts from Simon Davison and others inciting apparently now disconnected customers to call the Police and claim to them that company representatives including myself had somehow caused this outage.
As Alamgit admits in the HDM article
http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Police-called-Hull-broadband-customers-cut-wake/story-15858047-detail/story.html
“Internet phone company Connexin bought the assets and pledged to keep everyone online.
But the new firm says it was unable to acquire access codes in east Hull and effectively had to hack into its own systems to keep people online. Then the service began to crash and Connexin called the police.”
Of course, Alamgit stands to gain commercially by claiming that there were problems with the network as this reduces the pre-packed price his company Connexin Ltd eventually pays and anyway Alamgit admits that Connexin was hacking the network and that it was their ineptitude that caused the outage in the first place!
"The calls followed a posting on Facebook urging concerned customers to contact the police after wi-fi was disconnected for several customers in east Hull.”
Apparently Humberside Police received over a hundred calls in half an hour, so hardly surprising that they felt obliged to react as they did!!!
In other words, Connexin employees incited a Facebook flash mob only this incident also caused a waste of Police time and resources as in reality yours truly had no need to know nor therefore access to the codes concerned.
The unauthorised facebook group concerned, nextgenus internet hull, is controlled by Simon Davison and Mark dunn, both ex-Nextgenus group employees who both now work for Connexin ltd and this Facebook group is notorious for blocking and banning any user who criticises Connexin or asks difficult questions.
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A Humberside Police spokesman told the Mail: "Humberside Police received a number of calls from members of the public following alleged data protection issues with the internet wi-fi network NextGenUs.
"Detectives are now investigating the circumstances surrounding the alleged offences."
And the detectives are getting full cooperation as regards both their time being wasted by Connexin and also the wider fraud that has been perpetrated, in the opinion of this author.
Mr Alamgir says all customers should now be back on and he has pledged to honour the existing charging packages people were on.
His company also offers an upgraded package at the same rate but with a changeover administration fee of £25.
In other words 400 customers each paying £25 (for what?) brings in £10,000 to Connexin if 400 customers fall for this surcharge – Connexin have apparently only paid £18k upfront for Hull and Ashby/Digby with a further £10k to follow in the next 6 months – this means that sweet FA has every incentive to invent or even create problems with these networks so that he can pay sweet FA of the deferred payment amount.
If customers pay the Connexin surcharge then Connexin have had to outlay only £8k –
a positive steal by any measure and all completed in 28 minutes.
In an attempt to justify this pre-packed deal, claims were initially made by joint administrator, FDevine, that internet suppliers would have ceased service at noon on 13th April 2012 unless a pre-arranged deal with Connexin was done. See
http://nextgenus.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/uk-fastest-ever-broadband-network-sale.html
Suppliers were immediately contacted and happy to confirm that they had no intention of ceasing service and that they had given no such advice to Devine.
The story then hurriedly changed without explanation and it was then claimed by the administrators that unless the pre-packed deal with Connexin was rammed through by noon Friday 13th April 2012 then Connexin had threatened to withdraw and that might mean that no better offer would emerge.
In reality Connexin had been boasting for several weeks previously of its intention to establish a wireless network in Hull and the Davison-controlled FB Group (NextGenUs Internet Hull) had been inciting NextGenUs customers to not pay their bills and wait for Connexin to take over, so Connexin were clearly bluffing in threatening to just walk away and in any event the pre-packed deal price had every prospect of being raised were other potential investors given any realistic opportunity to assess what was on offer.
Bearing in mind that neither Devine nor Butler were acting as administrators until at the earliest 11AM on Friday 13th April 2012, so what is this unmissable deal then?
It appears that there is a “pre-packed” deal created by Devine that sells parts of NextGenUs UK CIC and Fibrestream ltd assets whilst leaving behind all associated liabilities.
This pre-packed Connexin deal (which remains secret and will apparently do so for the next two weeks at least according to John Butler, joint administrator) was concluded in 28 Minutes flat giving no opportunity for best value to be realised – this means that the joint administrators have failed to ensure the best outcome for creditor or customers.
This for networks that generate revenues in excess of £10k each month without adding one solitary customer.
Networks ripped off from CIC Asset Lock protection in 28 Minutes flat!
How can this possibly represent best value for creditors or community?
