{"id":24817,"date":"2021-06-14T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=24817"},"modified":"2021-06-14T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T17:28:24","slug":"iqnet-head-posts-pictures-of-himself-cooking-continues-to-ignore-role-in-humanitarian-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/iqnet-head-posts-pictures-of-himself-cooking-continues-to-ignore-role-in-humanitarian-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"IQNet Head Posts Pictures of Himself Cooking, Continues to Ignore Role in Humanitarian Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

IQNet head Pedro Castro Alves<\/a> has been working hard to ignore some very serious complaints filed with his organization, related to its role in propping up companies involved in human trafficking, genocide, and a host of other crimes against humanity.\u00a0 But over at LinkedIn, Alves found the time to post photos of himself<\/a> wearing an apron and cooking for the IQNet staff. Presumably this is an attempt to try and humanize him, and you get to decide if that’s working or not.<\/p>\n

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IQNet provides some weird extra level of accreditation that has always been poorly understood, but which appears to be a sort of Accreditation Body cabal that allows ISO certificates to use one more logo and feign additional authenticity. I frankly have never had anyone properly explain what benefits IQNet membership brings to the bodies in its stable.<\/p>\n

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Pedro Castro Alves<\/p><\/div>\n

But as a result, IQNet membership is linked to ISO certificates for hundreds of thousands of companies, including those involved in dramatic illegal activities. These include: Odebrecht<\/a>, which is responsible for the world’s largest international bribery scheme resulting in the toppling of entire governments in Latin America; Top Glove, a manufacturer found<\/a> to be using forced labor in Malaysia; Quality Austria, which has been found to certifying its own regional offices and consulting clients, and who Oxebridge alleges<\/a> did so while accepting bribes; multiple Rostec companies<\/a>, which are under US and EU sanctions for their support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine; various Chinese companies found to be responsible for genocide and forced labor<\/a> of Uyghur Muslims in the XUAR region of China.<\/p>\n

IQNet was caught<\/a> “doubling” its official comments on the drafts of ISO 9001:2015, by filing identical comments both through the official ISO member body of Portugal, and then again as IQNet.<\/p>\n

Despite multiple complaints filed with IQNet in general, and Alves specifically, IQNet has never once responded to a single issue. Alves could at any time create a policy that pulls IQNet support from companies involved in such horrific activities.<\/p>\n

But apparently, Alves gets a pass for his role in humanitarian abuses because he can make tiny nibbles and stab them with toothpicks, and cube a watermelon.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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