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SHE REPORTED FRAUD AT ONE OF BRITAIN'S BIGGEST COMPANIES. NOBODY CARED. THEN IT ALL COLLAPSED. Emma Mercer started her new finance job at Carillion in early 2017. Six weeks in, she found something that made her stomach drop. The books were wrong. Costs were being hidden. Profits were being made to look bigger than they were. On projects worth hundreds of millions of pounds, the numbers simply did not match reality. She told her boss. He brushed her off. She told the CEO. Same response. She went to HR because she had run out of people willing to listen. A board member later described her in writing as a whistleblower who did not feel she was listened to. She was right about everything. Every single thing. But instead of launching an independent investigation, the board quietly scrapped the idea of outside scrutiny and handed the job back to @KPMG, the company's own auditors. The same firm that had been signing off Carillion's accounts as healthy for 19 consecutive years. The same firm collecting £29 million in fees from the very company it was supposed to be independently checking. MP Frank Field said it plainly in Parliament. KPMG were asked to mark their own homework. They gave it top marks. Eight months after Emma Mercer raised the alarm, Carillion collapsed. January 2018. The biggest compulsory liquidation in British history. Here is what that actually meant for real people: 3,000 workers lost their jobs overnight. 28,500 people in Carillion's pension schemes saw their retirement savings cut. A £2.6 billion pension black hole left ordinary workers worse off for years. Taxpayers handed over £150 million just to keep hospitals, schools and prisons running while the mess was cleaned up. Meanwhile, Carillion's former Finance Director Richard Adam sold every single share he owned on the day the 2016 annual report was published. He walked away with £750,000. The shares were worthless months later. It took the regulator five years to act. When it finally did, KPMG was fined £21 million, a record. Investigators also discovered KPMG staff had faked meeting minutes and altered spreadsheets to deceive the regulator during its inspection. The lead audit partner was banned from the profession for 10 years. The fine was less than what KPMG earned from Carillion. One woman told the truth in her first six weeks on the job. She was ignored, sidelined and described as a problem. The executives who ignored her kept their bonuses. The auditors who backed them up kept their fees. The workers who had nothing to do with any of it paid the price. This is how British corporate accountability works.

ArturNadol7566's tweet photo. SHE REPORTED FRAUD AT ONE OF BRITAIN'S BIGGEST COMPANIES. NOBODY CARED. THEN IT ALL COLLAPSED.

Emma Mercer started her new finance job at Carillion in early 2017. Six weeks in, she found something that made her stomach drop.

The books were wrong. Costs were being hidden. Profits were being made to look bigger than they were. On projects worth hundreds of millions of pounds, the numbers simply did not match reality.

She told her boss. He brushed her off. She told the CEO. Same response. She went to HR because she had run out of people willing to listen.

A board member later described her in writing as a whistleblower who did not feel she was listened to.

She was right about everything. Every single thing.

But instead of launching an independent investigation, the board quietly scrapped the idea of outside scrutiny and handed the job back to @KPMG, the company's own auditors.

The same firm that had been signing off Carillion's accounts as healthy for 19 consecutive years. The same firm collecting £29 million in fees from the very company it was supposed to be independently checking.

MP Frank Field said it plainly in Parliament. KPMG were asked to mark their own homework.

They gave it top marks.

Eight months after Emma Mercer raised the alarm, Carillion collapsed. January 2018. The biggest compulsory liquidation in British history.

Here is what that actually meant for real people:

3,000 workers lost their jobs overnight. 28,500 people in Carillion's pension schemes saw their retirement savings cut. A £2.6 billion pension black hole left ordinary workers worse off for years.

Taxpayers handed over £150 million just to keep hospitals, schools and prisons running while the mess was cleaned up.

Meanwhile, Carillion's former Finance Director Richard Adam sold every single share he owned on the day the 2016 annual report was published. He walked away with £750,000. The shares were worthless months later.

It took the regulator five years to act. When it finally did, KPMG was fined £21 million, a record. Investigators also discovered KPMG staff had faked meeting minutes and altered spreadsheets to deceive the regulator during its inspection. The lead audit partner was banned from the profession for 10 years.

The fine was less than what KPMG earned from Carillion.

One woman told the truth in her first six weeks on the job. She was ignored, sidelined and described as a problem. The executives who ignored her kept their bonuses. The auditors who backed them up kept their fees. The workers who had nothing to do with any of it paid the price.

This is how British corporate accountability works.

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Jonah James @JonahJames

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@DearS_o_n plant an orchard of fruit trees

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Jonah James @JonahJames

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The age of AI agents is just beginning. VeChain's AgentSuite aims to make creating, deploying, trusting, and monetizing agents simple for everyone. Build. Monetize. Scale. Join the waitlist and help shape the future: https://t.co/xxUPKFvfLd #VeChain #AIAgents #Web3 #Innovation

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Jonah James @JonahJames

4 months ago

AI without transparency creates uncertainty. Blockchain without utility creates speculation. AgentSuite combines both: 🤖 AI for intelligence ⛓️ VeChain for trust Together, they unlock a future where digital agents can transact and collaborate with confidence. #Web3 #AI

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vechain:native is #MICA compliant, when you know how hard is to get this...You know #Vechain is a serious company !

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You don’t need to be a developer to participate in the AI economy..You might be a: 📈 Trader ⚖️ Lawyer 🏋️ Coach 📚 Teacher 🏢 Consultant AgentForge lets you transform your expertise into a specialized AI agent that works for you 24/7. Your knowledge becomes an asset. #AI #VeChain

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4 months ago

Most AI agents today operate like black boxes. Who built them? Can they be trusted? How do you verify performance? Built on VeChain, AgentTrust provides: ✅ Agent identities ✅ Reputation scoring ✅ Transparent records ✅ Escrow capabilities Trust is the missing layer of AI.

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AI is getting cheaper. Expertise isn’t. As the cost of intelligence trends toward zero, the most valuable asset becomes your unique experience, insights, and perspective. That’s why VeChain is building AgentSuite. Scale your expertise. #VeChain #AI

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🚨 HUGE for institutional adoption: #VeChain's Hayabusa upgrade (Dec 2025) is now fully compliant with the EU's MiCA regulatory framework for all 27 member states. Backed by Binance, Coinbase, https://t.co/DeIQYXlDAQ, KuCoin & Revolut. https://t.co/HbuLL9gyUE #VET #MiCA #Crypto

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4 months ago

♻️ #VeChain uses just 0.0002 kWh per transaction — roughly 0.04% of comparable blockchains. With $50 trillion expected to flow into ESG-compliant projects by 2030, VeChain is positioned as THE blockchain for a sustainable future. 💚 #GreenBlockchain #VET https://t.co/SYACmmBwDA

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4 months ago

Real-world blockchain adoption isn't a theory — it's already happening at scale. #VeChain has processed 200 million transactions for Walmart China alone, tracking food products from farm to shelf in real time. This is blockchain with utility. 🌍 $VET https://t.co/Mv3CwJfGhf

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$VET. The most overlooked thing about VeChain is that it solves a problem businesses already spend money on. Most crypto projects ask the world to change its behavior. VeChain fits into behavior that already exists, then makes it more transparent and efficient. That is why partnerships matter more here than hype. When blockchain becomes invisible and the business outcome becomes visible, adoption gets a lot easier. VeChain has always been one of the clearest examples of that.

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The TRUST Agent Marketplace is the fulfilment of 10 years of building trust infrastructure. A specialized, for-hire AI agent marketplace on VeChainThor. Experts build and list agents. Users hire them. We provide verification and payment rails. Agent identity is anchored on-chain. Credibility scores are recorded on-chain and visible to anyone. The vision mirrors what Amazon built for physical commerce: infrastructure, a trust layer, and network effects that connect buyers and sellers at global scale. The product being bought and sold: verified, credentialed intelligence.