The jury is guilty of four men

Adam Sharoudi (41) and Gavin Brown, 48, Ran Oricom Ltd – a company that effectively started from a garden shed before protecting themselves.

However, the prosecutors said that the contracts for the delivery and maintenance of telecommunications and video conference devices rejected the rules for financial misconduct in the tender procedure.

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The Oricom bosses received the illegal help of Alan Hush, 68 and 60-year-old Gavin Cox.

Hush was the telecommunications manager at NHS Lothian and then at NHS Scotland Video Conferencing Manager.

Cox held the head of the IT and the infrastructure in NHS Lanarkshire.

The couple abused his powers as “public servants” to enforce business. A contract was worth 3.1 million GBP alone.

In return, Hush received £ 18,231 cash sticks and gifts, a total of more than £ 70,000.

All four men contested the allegations during a three -month mammoth process at the High Court in Glasgow.

Jurors today – after more than eight days of consulting – found them guilty today and they stand with long sentences when they return to the dock next month.

The charges between 2010 and 2017 bribery, corruption, fraud, theft and others as part of the proceeds of the crime law.

One stated that Sharoudi and Brown recorded, used and own a total of 5,719,244 GBP of “criminal property” by NHS Lothian, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde as well as NHS Ayrshire and Arran.

The four were against deposit throughout the case, but was detained by judge Lord Arthurson.

He told them that corruption was “cancer in public and commercial life”.

The four should expect “significant” prison sentence if they return to the dock in June.

Oricom was founded in 2008 by the trained engineer Brown and colleague David Bailey.

Oricom in Irvine (Image: Google Maps) Later they used offices in Irvine in Ayrshire. Sharoudi also entered the team as a director.

Oricom started from a small business and began to build up a reputation in the telecommunications industry.

Brown told the jury that he believed that they could offer better service than some of the known companies.

This ultimately meant that Oricom got a number of Big Health Board contracts.

But in 2015, his offices were searched for concerns regarding the securing of business by the investigators of NHS Scotland Counter Services.

This resulted in the Oricom directors as well as the Hush and Cox were arrested and accused.

Bailey was also pursued under criminal law, but at the beginning of the trial, indictment against him was fallen.

The four accused gave all evidence in the case that was sitting for 65 days.

Hush from Leith, Edinburgh, was the first. He told the jury that he originally became aware of Oricom in 2010.

Married Hush was friends with Sharoudi, but denied that there was an intimate relationship.

The attempt heard from numerous text messages between the men over the years.

This included Hush, who described Sharoudi as “Hunk” and was referred to as “Stud” in return. Hush also explained his love for the Oricom director.

Hush claimed that the messages would often contain “bawdy humor”.

He denied to be dependent on Sharoudi for cash.

But Hush is said to have complained at some point: “I want to have a commission under my belt. I go on vacation in a month and can't afford to check it.”

His KC Keith Stewart put him on him during the trial: “If there was an indication of the commission, it was that they would talk about earning money from Oricom in exchange for contracts, what would they say?”

Hush: “That wasn't the case at all.”

He added that a remark about “commission” was wit.

Hush claimed in court that all payments he had ever received had been money from his now deceased father.

He said: “He gave me checks and cash. He was an old man and had a box in his wardrobe with 20 pounds.”

However, it was later proposed that Hush had used the company as a “Bank of Oricom” for his help in business, including a contract of £ 750,000 with NHS Lothian.

The handouts should contain train cards as on the Eurostar, stay in the Troy and Re Hotels in London, an almost 2,000 pound laptop, an iPad, meals and concert tickets to see Paul Simon, Rufus Wainwright and Patti Smith.

At the intersection, the prosecutor David Nicolson KC stopped on a phase: “In NHS Lothian, Alan Hush was the Kingpin in the telecommunications department.

“You were the 'big cheese', 'the big boss'. The telecommunications department was her fief.

“Alan Hush, played by the Alan Hush rules. Alan Hush invented and did the rules of what he liked.”

He replied: “Alan Hush played after the best of his skills.”

Mr. Nicolson also explained that Hush had “not invested a proper tendering process for the reliable work”.

Hush is said to have “excited” in a “deception” in order to obtain false “shady” quotes in order to enable the company to do the lucrative business.

Hush rejected misconduct and insisted on it: “I entered the witness box and said the truth.”

Sharoudi from Motherwell, Lanarkshire, in the meantime told his KC Brian McConnachie that Hush paid back for everything Oricom bought for him.

He said, “Alan was very aware of it. He paid every single thing that was bought.”

The test version heard of a message that Sharoudi wrote: “Spend Valentine's Day with Hushie”.

But Sharoudi told the court that he was at HUSH on February 14th.

He dismissed the claims that there was something intimate between them that the NHS civil servant could be guilty of “pushing a joke too far”.

In his evidence, Cox of Cathcart, Glasgow, “bribed” by Oricom and that every contract was won “fair and square” with NHS Lanarkshire.

He was accused of giving Oricom with information that “Heads Up” in order to provide them with a “commercial advantage” to secure the business.

It was believed that it was “not a level playing field” for other bidders.

Cox said that he was not “adamant” that Oricom had to insist on the work that it had to be done “by the right tendering process”.

The court heard about an excited news exchange after the company found out that they were likely to receive a contract.

Brown wrote Sharoudi: “I will be my pants C ****”.

Sharoudi replied: “Yes f ***** g baby”.

It was said that Cox's “rewards” hospitality at the Scottish Grand National in Ayr, a night in the Loch Green Hotel in Troon and a slap-up meal at Elliots in Prestwick.

Brown was also a guest at Cox's surprise party 50th birthday.

The NHS officer said about the process: “The things I got from Oricom for which I paid fully.”

The jurors heard that he also received thousands of Barrhead travel day -to -day vouchers worth thousands of pounds that enabled him to go to New York and Lanzarote.

However, Cox said he was believed that they were gifts to his wife – a newspaper advertiser – from Brown's partner with whom she was friends.

The public prosecutor stated that this was “a remarkable coincidence”.

Cox also contested a number of oricom barouts ever.

He told the trial that instead he received a holding all money after the death of his father.

He returned from Northern Ireland and put it in his attic at home in Scotland.

Cox claimed that it was only later realized how much there was – a total of £ 79,300.

It was around 2012 or 2013 that Cox had agreed to “invest” it in the house in which they had moved into Newton Mearns in the house. East Renfrewshire.

Cox: “We decided to improve the house with an expansion. Everything came from my inheritance.”

Brown from Prestwick, Ayrshire, told his KC Tony Graham that he was happy about the work that Oricom made available to health authorities over the years.

He added: “We delivered a service. If you called at 3 a.m., we would repair everything you wanted. We had a good reputation. We really worked very hard.”

The jurors heard that Oricom even sorted a massive Wi-Fi problem in the HairyRres Hospital in East Kilbride in the course of the process.

Brown also knew another NHS Lanarkshire officer named Alexander “Sandy” Stewart.

Among the charges was also effective in order to secure work, including a contract of almost £ 700,000.

Stewart has died since then.

The prosecutors also said that smaller “incentives” were awarded to an IT official who worked in NHS Lanarkshire as well as in Greater Glasgow and Clyde as well as a woman with NHS Ayrshire and Arran.

Hush was found guilty for nine fees, Cox Two, Sharoudi, Seven and Brown.

Lawyers for all four had asked to stay against deposit.

However, Lord Arthurson reminded them and continued: “They were convicted of crimes by the jury for an extremely severe catalog.

“This includes crimes in relation to bribery and corruption and charges that were raised after the proceeds of the crime law.

“You, Hush and Sharoudi, also several fraud fees.

According to the judgments, the jury found that they were involved to different degrees to different degrees in a deep cynical, upgraded, calculated and criminal betrayal of the welfare state and ultimately the taxpayer.

“The courts consider corruption as cancer in public and commercial life.

“You should expect nothing less than the imposition of significant custody penalties.”

The conviction will take place on June 5 in Edinburgh.

They are also separate hearings after the proceeds from the Crime Act.

The prosecutors have also moved to Sharoudi and Brown in order to be banned as company directors.