transport boss handed £1million of taxpayers’ cash to a train firm in a secret deal over a botched Subway contract, the Sunday Mail can reveal.
Gordon Maclennan – who quit as chief executive of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) after we exposed him for driving an illegal cloned car – personally negotiated the payment to Spanish firm CAF.
The out-of-court settlement over a flawed £200million tendering process to build subway carriages came with a Non-Disclosure Agreement to ensure details never became public.
Media were also excluded from the SPT meetings where the blunder was discussed.Maclennan is under police investigation after we snapped him driving a VW Passat on the Isle of Lewis which had an identical.
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