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Company director disqualified and ordered to pay compensation after Bounce Back Loan misconduct

• Updated: 16 May 2024

Company overstated turnover to claim maximum Bounce Back Loan allowed and used funds for personal expenses

• Updated: 14 May 2024

The company made millions of unsolicited cold-calls, with thousands of people complaining to the Information Commissioner’s Office

• Updated: 9 May 2024

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

Former Premier League footballer and international manager disqualified as director for three-and-a-half years

• Updated: 24 April 2024

Tough action taken against directors to tackle Covid loan misconduct

• Updated: 12 April 2024

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

• Updated: 2 April 2024

The takeaway owner applied for a Bounce Back Loan and did not use the funds as declared in his application.

• Updated: 28 February 2024

Investors lost more than £57 million through the fund

• Updated: 27 February 2024

Indian restaurant and takeaway manager banned as company director after employing three illegal workers

• Updated: 20 February 2024

The owner of a Cumbria pizzeria and takeaway has been banned as a company director for six years after hiring two illegal workers.

• Updated: 29 January 2024

London-based director of apprenticeships training provider failed to explain spending that included more than £2.5 million of public funding

• Updated: 12 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

Richard Howson, who was the Chief Executive Officer of Carillion Plc until 10 July 2017, has been disqualified as a director for 8 years.

• Updated: 4 October 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

Glasgow director took millions from investors to invest in US oil and gas company but spent the money.

• Updated: 8 September 2023

Three businessmen from southeast England each claimed the maximum £50k Bounce Back Loan and one dissolved his company to avoid repayment.

• Updated: 25 August 2023

Stephen Oleksewycz acted as director of an events promotion business whilst an undischarged bankrupt, and also committed fraud offences.

• Updated: 11 August 2023