after its own £5 million, three-month internal investigation, compass had declared it had discovered "serious irregularities" in its un business, but that these were limited to "only a few individuals" who were dismissed: peter r. harris, andy seiwert and doug kerr. mr harris, who by then was the head of the group's british, middle east and african division at this point. while compass refused to make public its investigation, ceo michael bailey stepped down in june 2006. the subsidiary eurest support services was soon restructured and reformed along a new business model.