Insolvency Service
UK sees ‘steady increase’ in the number of insolvencies
There remains a ‘smorgasbord of risk factors’ that could spike the number of insolvencies
Investment | 14 Aug 24
Ex-investment firm director gets 15-year bankruptcy restrictions for scam scheme
He defrauded 13 different parties in an investment scam between 2011 and 2016
Regulation | 25 Jul 24
More than 830 directors in UK banned for Covid loan abuses in one year
It carried out 22 criminal prosecutions and took steps towards the recovery of nearly £3m
Directors charged with fraud over Costa Rica plantation investment scheme
‘Abrupt collapse’ of company saw around 3,500 UK investors lose £70m
£20m Ponzi scheme fraudster handed seven-year prison sentence
Many victims lost most or all of the money they had entrusted to him