Clarence Mitchell, whilst hinting for funds to continue the alleged search for Madeleine, falsely claimed that the McCanns had hired a team of crack detectives

In 2010, Clarence Mitchell, whilst hinting for funds to continue the alleged search for Madeleine, claimed that the McCanns had hired a team of crack detectives, the best there was.  He named this company as Alpha Investigations Group.  It turns out that there was no such company and the actual company was a bogus company called Alphaig Limited set purely for McCann purposes. The company had one director of Arthur Cowley, no other staff, no assets, no cash.

This article was posted by Tony Bennett on 9 May 2011. It has been revised and updated by MMRG on 16 May 2019. 

 

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Arthur Cowley's cottage, 950 feet up in the Flintshire Hills, Wales, on the 
edge of Halkyn Common on the slopes of Halkyn Mountain
(photo by Tony Bennett: Copyright)

This cottage was claimed to be the registered office of ALPHAIG, which in turn has been deliberately misrepresented by the McCann Team as Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley's 'Alpha Investigations Group'. 

In 2009, media stories erupted about a new crack team of private investigators whom the McCann Team had employed to further their private investigations into Madeleine's disappearance. It was said to be a company called Alpha Investigations Group, and run its 'Head', former Detective Inspector Dave Edgar. This was all untrue. 

Look very closely at the picture and among the six vehicles you see here, is a blue van in the background. It bears the legend: 'RACING PIGEONS', and that is indeed how he is known in his group of nine houses called Pant-y-Gof, located in the hamlet of Halkyn, just a mile above the village of Pentre Halkyn.

They call him 'the man with the pigeon lofts'.

No-one in his village seriously thinks he has ever run or even participated an investigations business run from this 950-foot high remote cottage. He's too busy with his pigeons.

Appropriate that, perhaps, for a stool pigeon.

Remember that...

* ALPHAIG nowhere ever publicised any contact details, neither 'phone number, nor e-mail address, nor website address

* 'Alpha Investigations Group' does not exist, and has never existed

* One of Brian Kennedy's business associates registered the domain name 'alphaig.co.uk' in January 2009, five months before Cowley's ALPHAIG was registered

* ALPHAIG was registered as a company only after the 7 May 2009 documentary in which Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley first came to public notice, and has no assets to speak of and no employees.
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Arthur Cowley and Dave Edgar

Everything you need to know about this bogus company.

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Alpha Investigations Group (Alphaig Limited) is the company headed by former detectives Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley which has been reportedly employed, through Madeleine's Fund, to find Madeleine.

In August 2009, Clarence Mitchell declined to say how much the private detectives were being paid, adding: 'We will not discuss contractual matters concerning the investigation costs nor the investigator remuneration.'

The abbreviated accounts for Alphaig Limited, for the period ending 30 June 2010, were signed off on 31 January 2011 and reveal surprisingly modest figures, given the official FindMadeleine.com website has stated: 'The majority of the fund money has been and continues to be spent on investigative work to help find Madeleine