The Disqualification Files

Over-Egging Turnover and Using Lloyds Bank BBL Funds for Personal Benefit Results in Another Company Director Being Hit with a 6 Year Disqualification

I do recall one of the bosses of Lloyds Bank being quite smug in a Commons Treasury Committee meeting and telling MPs firing questions at him about the BBL scheme, that due to his bank only accepting their own customers for Bounce Back Loans, and not opening up the scheme to new customers, the number of dodgy loans issued by his bank would be low, that has proven not to be the case. […]

The Disqualification Files

6 Year Disqualification for Leaving Liquidator Unable to Determine if ATM and Over the Counter Cash Withdrawals of BBL Funds Were for Personal Benefit or for the Benefit of the Business and 9 Year Disqualification for Securing a BBL When Business Had Ceased Trading and Was Insolvent

Another two Bounce Back Loans worth a total of £80,000 have gone sour resulting in two business owners being slapped with a 6 and 9 year disqualification respectively. The reasons for those disqualifications follow the same pattern as many others, that being the business owners could not prove […]

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More Scrutiny of BBLs

Government Commissions Company Employing Ex-Mi5 Head Jonathan Douglas Evans as An Advisor to Track Down Bounce Back Loan Wrongdoers – Read the Contract

Who would have thought when Rishi Sunak launched his Bounce Back Loan scheme along with the CBILS, CLBILS and Future Fund schemes, he would have to turn to a company that counts an ex-Director General of Mi5 on its payroll to try and sniff out potential fraudsters of those schemes, well that is what he is doing, and here is the contract awarded to that company. […]

The Disqualification Files

Capital on Tap Issued BBL Goes Sour with Company Director Hit with a 5 Year 6 Months Disqualification for Using His Bounce Back Loan Funds for Personal Benefit

Even though Capital on Tap decided that they would only offer Bounce Back Loans to their own customers, that hasn’t led to them being immune from those BBLs going sour, and here is an overview of one Company Director that has been hit with a 5 and a half year disqualification for among other things, using his BBL for personal benefit.   […]

BBL Loopholes

Lord Sikka Reveals Corrupt Insolvency Practitioners, Insolvency Service Problems, Companies House and Italian Mafia Bosses and Loopholes in the Supposed Loophole Closing Bill That Aims to Hit Company Directors Hard for Bounce Back Loan Wrongdoing

On the day the Coronavirus Act was extended, the “Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill” was up for debate in the House of Lords, and it turned out to be a somewhat lively and revealing debate with Lord Sikka letting rip and referencing, amongst other things the Italian Mafia and loopholes the Bill does not apparently close. […]