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Director overstated his company’s turnover to claim the maximum Bounce Back Loan and could not account for how the money was spent

• Updated: 9 May 2024

Founder of Ireland’s Insolvency Service joins the UK Insolvency Service Board as a non-executive member

• Updated: 7 May 2024

Boss of a Hertfordshire company which supported ex-offenders falsely claimed an extra £100,000 in Covid support loans.

• Updated: 2 April 2024

Company sold unnecessary service plans to vulnerable customers and told them they would be charged if they cancelled

• Updated: 7 March 2024

Finance companies Satchi Holdings PLC and Hartreel Ltd wound-up after misleading investors and failing to cooperate with an investigation into the firms’ affairs

• Updated: 20 February 2024

The Body Shop International Ltd announced it entered administration on 13 February 2024. This page gives information on how to claim redundancy or register as a creditor.

• Updated: 20 February 2024

Banned Shropshire window company boss managed business while disqualified from running a company

• Updated: 13 February 2024

Two directors of an industrial laundry installation firm who set up a ‘phoenix’ company while disqualified from running a business have been fined a total of £182,700. 

• Updated: 22 January 2024

Information for landlords, customers, employees, creditors and shareholders of Thomas Cook in liquidation.

• Updated: 9 January 2024

Liverpool directors closed their company after moving Bounce Back Loan money into family bank accounts

• Updated: 18 December 2023

Former director of Extra Energy Supply is now banned from running a business.

• Updated: 16 November 2023

Boss of Basildon firm took money for rare coins that were never supplied.

• Updated: 3 October 2023

Boss of Enfield gift company ordered by court to repay more than £43,000 to the public purse

• Updated: 2 October 2023

Wilko went into administration on 10 August 2023. This page provides information on how to claim redundancy or register as a creditor.

• Updated: 12 September 2023

Comprehensive reforms will include regulation of firms and a new public register of professionals following major consultation on sector’s future.

• Updated: 12 September 2023

First compensation order secured in court to repay taxpayer-backed Bounce Back Loan fraudulently secured during the pandemic.

• Updated: 1 September 2023

Aleksander Staskiewicz overstated his company turnover in order to secure the taxpayer-backed funds.

• Updated: 30 August 2023

Trader of electronic goods retained no records, leaving tax bill of more than £2.7 million unpaid and no explanation for transactions totalling nearly £5 million.

• Updated: 15 August 2023

The Insolvency Service has today issued a reprimand – the first time such powers have been used – against the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) for regulatory failings.

• Updated: 30 June 2023

Two businessmen from East Sussex and Essex falsely claimed maximum £50k Bounce Back Loans and used money for their own gain.

• Updated: 28 June 2023