Courtesy Of Whathappenedtomadeleinemccann blogspot ALPHAIG, a bogus company Why did Arthur Cowley set up ALPHAIG in 2009? The answer leads us back to Brian Kennedy. Companies House records tell us that ALPHAIG was incorporated on 10 June 2009, that is, months after both Cowley and Edgar were recruited by Kennedy to the McCann private investigation team. The registered office is given as Cowley’s home address: ‘Treetops’, Pant-y-Gof, HALKYN, Flintshire, CH8 8DH. Cowley was a founding Director, so was a ‘shelf company’, Turner Little Company Nominees Ltd, of North Yorkshire. This company resigned the same day, meaning that Cowley was the sole Director of the ALPHAIG. There is no mention of Dave Edgar being involved with this company in any shape or form. The trail leads back to Kennedy because it was his friend and business partner, Andrew Dickman, who registered the following internet domain name on 12 January 2009: alphaig.co.uk . Why did Dickman do this? And why did Cowley form an investigations company, months after Kennedy had employed him? These steps were taken because the McCann Team wanted to give the press and public the false impression that Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley were part of a well-established private detective agency, the Alpha Investigations Group. They successfully fooled the press and public into believing this suggestion. This deliberate deception began on 14 May 2009, when the Daily Mirror ran a story about Edgar and Cowley in which they wrote the following: “Mr Edgar now runs the Alpha Investigations Group with business partner Arthur Cowley”. At this stage, Cowley had not even (with Kennedy’s help) registered his company. There was no ‘Alpha Investigations Group’ that Edgar was ‘now running’. Many other newspapers ran with the false claim that ‘Edgar and Cowley now head up the Alpha Investigations Group. The accounts of Cowley’s ALPHAIG company revealed the following information: · The company had no employees · It had fixed assets of just £630, a bank balance of £853, an a profit for the year of £8 · Creditors owed £170; liabilities were £1,644 ALPHAIG therefore had very little, if any, equipment - and next to no cash. A firm of private investigators would need, for example, sophisticated equipment, cameras, listening devices, computers and cars. In addition, ALPHAIG had no website. It had no obvious means of being contacted. There is no reference anywhere else to the existence of this company except with reference to the McCann private investigation. There was nothing at Arthur Cowley’s Welsh mountain cottage to suggest that this was the headquarters of a prosperous, successful detective agency. Quite the reverse, in fact.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:00:32 +0000
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