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Shutterstock It was on 13 December last year that the first details of a scandal that has since engulfed the RICS began to surface. The Sunday Times revealed that a financial report into the RICS’s treasury management processes had not been shared beyond its audit committee. After months of wrangling with the RICS management board, four non-executive directors, who had learnt of the existence of the report in early 2019, obtained a copy. The report, by accountant BDO, turned out to be damning. But, when the four directors raised concerns about how it had been handed, they were abruptly dism...

By Tom Lowe2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00 Non-execs say group rejected their request for a public joint statement The four fired directors at the centre of a row that has shaken the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) have hit back at the organisation’s claims they asked for their dismissal to be kept under wraps. Amarjit Atkar, Bruce McAra, Simon Hardwick and Steve Williams had their contracts terminated in November 2019 after they raised concerns about the handling of a report into RICS’s treasury management processes. The four non-executive directors were dismissed in 2019 aft...

Independent inquiry into governance scandal launched last week

Four directors were fired after trying to raise alarm over report into body’s treasury management processes