Birmingham Council has been accused of dodging scrutiny over £11million of overpayments to a school taxi firm by publicly pricing all 163 contracts at exactly £64,938.27 - low enough to avoid transparency.
EXCLUSIVE: Birmingham
opposition councillor, Ewan Mackey (pictured) has called for a probe into the cosy relationship with a school taxi firm charging £200 a day to take one pupil three miles to school.
EXCLUSIVE: Jay Shimano (pictured), an official at now-bankrupt Birmingham City Council worked for two years in the same tiny community centre as a school transport firm that it was his job to regulate.