{"id":330141,"date":"2025-08-09T08:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330141\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T08:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:55:14","slug":"ni-water-fraud-allegations-shut-your-mouth-whistleblowers-advice-to-anyone-who-suspects-fraud-in-ni-public-sector-after-his-contract-was-terminated-in-wake-of-raising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330141\/","title":{"rendered":"NI Water fraud allegations: \u2018Shut your mouth\u2019: Whistleblower\u2019s advice to anyone\u00a0who suspects fraud in NI public sector after his contract was terminated in wake of raising alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Three weeks after NI Water director wrote to congratulate firm, and after 20 years of working for the utility, businessman had his contract ended \u2013 after blowing the whistle to allege systemic fraud against taxpayers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A whistleblower who alerted NI Water to what he says is mass fraud by a company billing for work which was never done. 8th August 2025 (Belfast Telegraph)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sam McBride (2).png\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A whistleblower who alerted NI Water to what he says is mass fraud by a company billing for work which was never done. 8th August 2025 (Belfast Telegraph)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A businessman who blew the whistle on what he believed was systemic fraud against taxpayers has said his advice to anyone in a similar position is to \u201cshut your mouth and carry on\u201d as if nothing had happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The man, who first contacted the Belfast Telegraph a year ago, said he has lost confidence in the ability of Northern Ireland\u2019s public sector to protect public money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Three weeks after NI Water director wrote to congratulate firm, and after 20 years of working for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[108876,1144,118697,6410,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-330141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-ni-water","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-patsy-mcglone","11":"tag-sam-mcbride","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114997973950278407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}