13/10/21
Dear Mr. Jonathan Aleck, CASA Executive Manager of Legal, International and Regulatory Affairs,
I am writing to you as the person that I consider accountable and responsible for my entire matter, and the related damage caused.
You were the sole decision maker, and at any time prior to issuing the notification in October 2018 and at any time after, you could have finalized this entire matter in a single day. In fact, you could have completely avoided it had you decided to.
That is the truth, and I will attend to that shortly in correspondence to the CASA Board, CEO and Deputy PM.
The purpose of this correspondence, however, is to call on you to act with integrity and in a truthful manner. If you choose not to do so, I will follow up with more extensive correspondence.
You have misled the Commonwealth Ombudsman to be of the view that CASA only found out about my businesses structure just prior to October 2018.
You know that to be incorrect, and I call on you to clarify this substantial misunderstanding. It is in fact central to this entire matter.
I am exhausted by your conduct. It has cost me my two businesses, my involvement in an industry I loved, cost me millions of dollars, and left me bankrupt. I have negatively impacted on so many people dependant on me. You have destroyed me financially, mentally, and having been released yesterday from hospital after an issue with my heart, physically.
Your “body of work” is complete, I fear it brings you some grotesque satisfaction.
The CASA position presented to the Ombudsman is preposterous. As you are fully aware.
- I had been operating in that structure for almost a decade prior, since our involvement with AV8 in Darwin. With full CASA knowledge and approval.
- Ten CASA personnel were involved over a two-year period in the total redesign of my business, and CASA personnel assessed and approved over 600 requirements. Those same CASA personnel have offered to come forward and tell the truth on this matter. I have extended that offer to the Commonwealth Ombudsman
- CASA revalidated the entire operation in April 2017 when it approved the business as a Part 141/142 (one of the first in Australia), eighteen months before CASA “found out”, about the structure.
- Routinely audited the entire operation with several CASA personnel over a one-week period in November 2017 (almost a year before you claim you “found out about” my structure.
- CASA approved our entire Operations Manual Suite referred to as the Exposition and approved bases via formal processes etc etc.
- CASA personnel regularly attended Group Operational Meetings and Safety meetings on numerous occasions, and CASA provided training to us in Group meetings.
I need not continue. My hope is that I will not need to. It should not be necessary. You have already diverted far too many public CASA resources to covering up this matter, and engineering your desired outcome.
I personally have expended everything, and I mean everything in trying to expose this matter.
Please note that I have not included anyone from CASA in this correspondence. I will leave it to your discretion if you deem it necessary to share this correspondence with the CASA CEO or Board.
My expectation is that you will reach out directly to the Commonwealth Ombudsman via written notification and clarify the truth regrading CASAs knowledge and involvement in my business years before you claim you first became aware. I ask that I be included in that correspondence.
If you in your role, maintain that it is CASAs position that you only became aware of the structure of my business just prior to October of 2018. I will write to the CASA CEO Board and CEO seeking confirmation that will be the official CASA position.
My sincere hope is that the new CEO and Board Chair do not need to become involved in this matter, although it seems increasingly unlikely. This matter is entirely in your hands, I urge you to act appropriate to your role.
Glen Buckley