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Dear Mr Raja,
66 Bedford Gardens London W8 7 E66
Thank you for your e-mail of Friday 13 January. So far as I am aware this is the first time you have felt minded to respond to any of the communications which have been passing to you from my solicitor and myself for almost a year now.
As you are a professional accountant (whereas Paul Brown-Constable is not) and as many of the relevant issues have related to the reliability of the accounts, your silence has been surprising, in fact deeply worrying.
I am pleased that the MHML accounts for 2017 will be audited, although given the issues that have arisen in 2014 and 2015, including charges of fraud (as to which there has so far been no plausible explanation, and highly relevant information continues to be deliberately withheld), it seems obvious to me that the accounts for relevant earlier years should be audited as well. Indeed if a 25% shareholder asks for the company’s accounts to be audited, and with obvious justification, it seems to me unconscionable for any professional accountant on the board to deny such a request. I will ask Mr Begg to take this up with your professional regulator.
Please rest assured that the other residents of Mitre House, with whom I am in regular contact about these matters, are very well aware of the actions I am taking. I believe you are incorrect in stating that the cost of audit of the MHML accounts can be recovered from the lessees. That is plainly a corporate expense and is not one of the items listed in the Seventh Schedule which can be the subject of a service charge. The only accounting expense which qualifies for that purpose is the cost of engaging accountants to certify the Service Charge Contribution (see Clause 13 of Schedule 7). I will advise the lessees that they are not liable to pay any element of the service charge which relates to an audit of the corporate accounts of MHML, and that they should deduct any part of the service charge which relates to an unlawful expense of that nature.
As you must be well aware it has not proved possible for Mr Begg or any of the lessees to obtain proper answers to their legitimate enquiries. Mr Brown-Constable simply sends back reams of irrelevant nonsense accompanied by personal abuse. It is simply not possible for this state of affairs to continue and unless you involve yourself personally (Mr Karupiah now having resigned) it is absolutely inevitable that proceedings – both civil and criminal – are going to follow.
In the hope that this might yet be averted. Would you be willing to have a meeting with Mr Begg and myself (and without Mr Brown-Constable) sometime in the next few days. Please let me know, so I can give you a suitable time and place. If you are not, please be in no doubt that I am not going to let the matter rest, and that you will be personally involved in the subsequent proceedings. Either way, please let me hear from you promptly.
With kind regards, Michele Hillgarth
From: Jamil Raja [mailto:J.Raja@jraja.co.uk] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 5:50 PM
To: Paul B_C; Sigg - Hillgarth Michele Subject: RE: MHML YE Accounts 2016
23rd January 23, 2017