Posted By: Bretts Business Recovery Ltd on 21st July 2025
                                
                                    
                                
                                A West London company director has been banned from running companies for 11 years and ordered to repay thousands after fraudulently securing a government-backed Covid support loan. Tahir Haq, sole director of Integral Maintenance Team Ltd,...
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                                Posted By: Bretts Business Recovery Ltd on 26th April 2024
                                
                                    
                                
                                The Insolvency Service has taken robust action against company directors who misused COVID-19 financial support schemes, banning 831 directors in the 2023-24 financial year. This represents an  increase of over 80% from the previous year. The...
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                                Posted By: Bretts Business Recovery Ltd on 27th July 2021
                                
                                    
                                
                                Jacob Isaacs & Co Ltd, incorporated in August 1998 and classified as being in the  wholesale trade was run by Isaac Jacobson, 51, from Salford until it was liquidated in July 2017.   As part of the liquidation, the Insolvency Service...
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                                Posted By: Bretts Business Recovery Ltd on 8th June 2021
                                
                                    
                                
                                Car dealer John Brian Capper from Shipley, West Yorkshire, has been sentenced to an 18-month community order, including 250 hours of unpaid work, after failing to provide books and records when his company was wound up due to alleged tax liabilities...
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                                Posted By: Bretts Business Recovery Ltd on 4th May 2020
                                
                                    
                                
                                Claims for financial support may be deemed fraudulent if the company was already in trouble when making claims and then later enters into an insolvency process. Insolvency practitioners (IPs) have been advised to remain alert to potentially...
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                                Posted By: Bretts Business Recovery Ltd on 21st March 2019
                                
                                
                                Pauline Muldowney, from Southend, also known as Pauline Gopee, was disqualified for 12 years on 7 December 2018 at the High Court of Justice. The court heard that Pauline Muldowney was the sole formally appointed director of Pangold Investments...
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                                Posted By: Bretts Business Recovery Ltd on 17th January 2019
                                
                                
                                Five companies carrying out an investment plan get shut down after promising high-value truffles for commercial sales. In London, on 12th October 2018 Viceroy Jones New Tech Ltd, Viceroy Jones Overseas PCC Limited, Westcountrytruffles Limited,...
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Isobel Brett provides comment for Financial Accountant on bounce back loans
Posted By: Bretts Business Recovery Ltd on 19th March 2024
Isobel Brett was featured in a recent article in Financial Accountant looking at the worrying number of bounce back loans issued to struggling SMEs by the Government, which may never be re-paid or were potentially mis-used. The article considers...
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