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Article

6 Jun 2013

Author:
Gill Plimmer, Financial Times

G4S shareholders lambast the board

Angry G4S shareholders bombarded the security company’s board with a barrage of accusations ranging from its involvement in Israeli prisons, to the death of asylum seeker Jimmy Mubenga…a group of demonstrators were forcibly ejected after disrupting the chairman’s opening speech with a loud siren and chanting. A procession of speakers then fired numerous questions about the FTSE 100 company’s involvement in Israeli prisons in the occupied territories. Ashley Almanza, who was facing shareholders for the first time as chief executive, said that G4S firmly believed it had not breached international law [in the occupied territories]. He added that the company took “human rights and ethical behaviour extremely seriously’’ and that the issue was “close to our hearts’’.