West Sussex Trading Standards says that it is aware of Ieo.
This is something that the IEO report evidently regarded as beyond its mandate – or too sensitive – to discuss.
Noting that conducting the evaluation had been "challenging", the IEO said there had been a lack of clarity about what it could or could not evaluate.
Lagarde said she did not accept that there had been political interference in the fund's technical analysis but gave the IEO recommendations either full or qualified backing.
A couple of days later I saw him on BBC South East Today explaining that he had closed Ieo and was now running L&J Home Improvements.
According to the IEO this was an efficient mechanism for conducting discussions with governments but at the expense of the IMF's "characteristic agility as a crisis manager".
The IEO concluded that "IMF-supported programmes in Greece and Portugal incorporated overly optimistic growth projections; lessons from past crises were not always applied".
IWA, which insures deposits, tells me that Ieo did not pay the premiums for some of its customers, including you, and so you are not covered.
The IEO added that by May 2010 the fund was worried about the risks of contagion and had to "modify" its own rules to allow exceptional financing for the government in Athens.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an Indian ex-head of the IEO, and Stanley Fisher, governor of the Bank of Israel and a former number two at the fund, have also been mentioned.
Nitin Khandia, a director of the civil litigation and dispute resolution department at BTMK Solicitors suggests reporting Tester's conduct to the liquidators of Ieo, who will then refer it to the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills for them to consider his disqualification as a director.
