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Restaurant company director banned for employing illegal workers
Anwar Hussain (“Mr Hussain”) has given an undertaking to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, which prevents him from becoming directly or indirectly involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company for six years from 9 November 2016.
10 year restriction for bankrupt who failed to pay HMRC with his only asset and then failed to pay the Official Receiver
At a hearing on 13 September 2016, a bankruptcy restriction order was made against Christopher John Day of Northampton for 10 years as a result of his conduct, lasting until 12 September 2026.
Mr Day was declared bankrupt on 17 June 2015 on a petition presented against him by Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
Directors of company service provider disqualified for failing to keep records
Three directors of a London-based company service provider have been disqualified for a combined 16 years for failing to keep records and, in one case, acting as a director when already disqualified.
Lisa Anne Mary Hamilton-Smith and Mangal Kapoor, directors of ALG Management Ltd (“ALG”) and Jonathan Andrew Henry Nuttall acting as director of ALG, a company service provider based in London have been disqualified as directors for 3, 5 and 8 years respectively, after given undertakings to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills.
Devon directors disqualified for using misleading bank statements to obtain £250,000 loan
Frederick Arthur Bartlett and Clive Victor Tayton, directors of Bionova Recycling Ltd, have each been disqualified from acting as a director for 10 years for obtaining a loan by false pretences.
Another director, Aaron Custance, has been disqualified for 8 years.
Following an investigation by the Insolvency Service, Mr Bartlett, Mr Tayton, and Mr Custance entered into disqualification undertakings, which prohibit them from acting in the management of a company for the duration of those undertakings.
All bets are off for Director of Arbitrage Gambling Company
Director Andrew Laird Hosie had run Gambling Insight Ltd as an investment vehicle for arbitrage gambling. This was a system under which bets were to be placed with different betting companies to enable the bettor to make a profit, regardless of the outcome, by utilising the variance in “odds” offered by different bookmakers. This was facilitated by software which scanned the online betting markets to detect the bookmakers at which the appropriate bets should be placed.
He had obtained an estimated £7,161,221, from both direct investors and syndicates, under representations that the gambling of the investment monies was virtually risk free. Claims were made including that “It is a Mathematical Certainty we will win and profit TAX FREE”.
Off the shelves: Bogus ‘health supplement’ company shut down after Insolvency Service investigation
Elbon Wellbeing Ltd, a Birmingham-based company which made false and misleading claims in persuading elderly and vulnerable customers to purchase health supplements, has been wound up in the High Court following an investigation by the Insolvency Service.
The company purchased data lists containing details of UK-based individuals over the age of 65 with health concerns over arthritis, blood pressure and high cholesterol. It used a call centre in Goa, India, to make unsolicited calls to the individuals on these data lists to sell them a range of health supplements.
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