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12-year ban for boss who laundered crooked builders’ dirty money

17 May 2013 11:30

Michael Anthony Joyce, also known as Tony Joyce, director of a cheque converting business, has been banned from running a company for 12 years for laundering cheques for rogue builders and for taking in a cheque from a client when his business was already insolvent and unlikely to honour the cheque.

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Multi-million pound scam shut down by Insolvency Service

16 May 2013 13:00

Three unscrupulous companies that continued a land banking scam previously carried out by Century Land - itself shut down for ripping off the public - and sold carbon credits to investors, have been wound up following an Insolvency Service investigation.

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Essex letting agent banned for seven years for failing to protect tenant deposits

14 May 2013 16:10

Philip Secunda, a director of Town & Country Letting & Management Limited (T&CL&M), based in Leigh on Sea, Essex has been disqualified from acting as a company director for seven years for failing to secure and pass on tenants deposits.

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AMENDED: Maximum disqualification term for disgraced international tour boss

10 May 2013 13:45

Abdulkadir Aydin, the sole director of Goldtrail Travel Limited Travel ('Goldtrail), a holiday company based in New Malden, Surrey, has received a 15-year director disqualification - the maximum possible term - from the High Court in London for gross mismangement of the company's affairs.

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Jail and community service for directors for flouting previous ban

09 May 2013 10:30

David Robert Shannon, 50, a disqualified director has been sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for two years, and 150 hours of unpaid work for controlling a company against court orders.

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Eight–year ban for director of former Seagram Distillers after squandering cash assets of £15m

01 May 2013 15:00

Stephen Bloch, the director of Centenary Holdings III Limited (previously Seagram Distillers Plc), has been disqualified for eight years by the High Court of Session, Edinburgh, for denuding the company of cash assets of £15m over an 18 month period.

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Carbon credit companies closed down following investigation

24 April 2013 10:52

Three connected companies that purported to sell carbon credits and Voluntary Emission Reductions (“VERs”), to the public as investments have been wound up in the public interest by the High Court in London, following petitions by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovations and Skills.

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Mobile home services providers immobilised by Insolvency Service

24 April 2013 10:00

Three companies that supplied essential services to mobile homes run by a nationwide operator based in Essex were wound up on 15 April 2013 up by the High Court in the public interest following investigations by the Insolvency Service.

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9 year ban for boss of illicit land banking scheme with £1m gap in books

19 April 2013 10:30

Wasim Minhas, director of Plateau Development and Land Limited, a company that illegally sold plots of land to the public and then failed to account for £1 million in payments from these sales, has been disqualified from acting as director for nine years following an investigation by The Insolvency Service.

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