article_snippet: James Caan paid £5,000 to a firm that helps people get honours - and was later awarded a CBE.
article_snippet: Mr Caan, who is worth £100million and was awarded a CBE by Prince William last month, paid £5,000 to Awards Intelligence, a firm that helps people get honours .
article_snippet: A source close to James Caan confirmed that James Caan paid £5,000 to Awards Intelligence, a firm specialising in securing honours.
article_snippet: A source close to Mr Caan said James Caan had already been nominated for an honour and had simply paid for A source close to Mr Caanadvice on how the system works and the system procedure as James Caan was unfamiliar with the awards process’.
article_snippet: Awards Intelligence describes Awards Intelligence as the ‘UK’s leading Queen’s Honour Nomination Drafting Expert’.
article_snippet: Last night a former friend of Mr Caan said: ‘Most millionaires are happy to keep a low profile and enjoy Most millionaires money, but Mr Caan has been desperate for public recognition for years, which explains why Mr Caan used to be on Dragons’
article_snippet: I knew Mr Caan’d used Awards Intelligence before to successfully draft nominations for a business award, then I heard Mr Caan was paying Awards Intelligence in relation to a Queen’s honour.
article_snippet: It’s a shame that ordinary people seeking honours don’t have access to the sort of advice Mr Caan can afford.
article_snippet: ‘As Mr Caan had an existing relationship with Awards Intelligence Mr Caan felt an existing relationship with Awards Intelligence entirely appropriate to seek advice on the procedural process of the UK’s honour system after Mr Caan was nominated.
article_snippet: Any suggestion that Mr Caan instructed Awards Intelligence or any other third party to nominate Mr Caan or to in any way exert any pressure or bring influence to bear on the honours committee to obtain an unfair advantage is completely untrue.
article_snippet: When asked by the Daily Mail about his honour, Mr Caan refused to comment.
highlights_snippet: James Caan paid Awards Intelligence to professionally draft a nomination .
  