Harben House Hotel in Newport Pagnell is due to receive 270 asylum seekers paid for by the home office. However, it has come to light that the hotel’s owner, Siddharth Mahajan, 42, from Ilford in east London, was convicted of offences linked to the operation of houses of multiple occupancy (HMOs).
Milton Keynes Council leader Pete Marland, Labour, described the findings as “shocking”.
He said: “The Home Office are meant to be responsible for law and order, not paying convicted felons hundreds of thousands of pounds”.
“It really does highlight a continued level of incompetence. I call on the Home Office to withdraw funding for the hotel and review why this was allowed to happen.”
Barking and Dagenham council said it investigated Mahajan for converting three family homes in Barking, east London, into HMOs without planning permission.
Mahajan was sentenced to 16 months in prison in early 2019 after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice and using copies of forged documents.
Harben House Hotel is owned by Bluebell Tame LTD, of which Mahajan has been a director for the last two years. The hotel will be used as long-term temporary accommodation for migrants waiting for their asylum applications to be processed.
The fact that the home office is paying a former criminal what will be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of YOUR pounds is of no surprise to us
Like the Muthu Glasgow River Hotel in Erskine, the UK government seems very happy to give OUR money to foreign hotel owners so they can house other foreigners whilst using our infrastructure and local amenities all the whilst we get told to tighten our belts, put up and shut up.
It’s frustrating to see our politicians go on and on about universalist Liberal values while costing the British taxpayer an enormous amount. This whole Migrant crisis has turned into a money-making scheme rather than a genuine effort to uphold human rights.
We want to invite those who can see through the facade of false humanity and join the Homeland Party in advocating for MR Mahajan and other individuals, as well as corporations like Serco and Mears Group, to take responsibility for housing migrants at their own expense. Doing so will demonstrate the depths of your humanity, which, unfortunately, is a luxury many of us cannot afford.
