The Disqualification Files

Company Director Given an 11 Year Ban for Getting a £50k Bounce Back Loan from Barclays When Only Eligible for £12,950 and Another Also Given an 11 Year Ban for Getting a £45k NatWest BBL When Only Eligible for £4,428

Getting a Bounce Back Loan by over-egging their turnover, then spending most of it on themselves and not the business, and ultimately taking the insolvency route has resulted in the two Company Directors named below being given 11-year disqualifications, which they are now starting. […]

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Falsely Stating His Business Turnover was £225,000 Results in Company Director Being Given a 10 Year Disqualification He Has Agreed to Repay It at £800 Per Month. The Liquidator Also Got £150 Compensation for Delays by HSBC in Providing the Information Requested!

After investigating every aspect of the application and spending of a Bounce Back Loan the Liquidator in the case below deemed the Company Director did misuse that BBL, and whilst it is now being repaid at £800 per month the Director also got a 10-year ban. […]

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Lenient 5 Year Ban Handed Out to Company Director Who Used Around Two Thirds of His Company’s Barclays Bounce Back Loan for Personal Benefit and Left It Unpaid at Liquidation

It’s a good job they don’t lock up those who have been found to have done some form of wrongdoing relating to a Bounce Back Loan, or prisons would soon be full to overflowing. As it stands, the most someone has to worry about is a disqualification/ban, if they take the insolvency route, such as the Company Director named below who is just starting a 5 year ban for the BBL wrongdoing listed. […]

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BBL Complaints and Outcomes

Barclays Declined a Sole Trader with Two Other BBL’s for His Other Two Businesses a Bounce Back Loan for His Third Business, the Ombudsman Awards Him £200 Compensation For the Upset Caused in Their Delay in Declining That Third Loan

The rules of the BBL scheme did state you could apply for as many Bounce Back Loans as you had separate, trading businesses that were not part of a holding company at the top of the business structure. Here is a recent Ombudsman decision in which Barclays declined a Sole Trader a third BBL for his third business and was ordered to pay him compensation but only for them taking so long to decline his loan and the upset caused. […]

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Sole Trader and Company Director Hit with 10 Year Bans for Bounce Back Loan Wrongdoing

As Rishi Sunak has now scuttled off back to obscurity having been trounced by Liz Truss in the recent Conservative Party vote for their new Leader and Prime Minister, the fallout of his Bounce Back Loan scheme is still being played out, and here are two more people now beginning long bans due to all manner of wrongdoing associated with that Government backed loan scheme. […]

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

HSBC Finally Confirm to the Ombudsman, When Told By Them to Address a Recent Bounce Back Loan Complaint, Their Feeder Accounts Were Imaginary, As I Did Announce Way Back When the BBL Scheme Went Live

Today I present to you a recent HSBC Bounce Back Loan related complaint that the Ombudsman has finally upheld, interesting to see that bank have now finally admitted that their Feeder Accounts, were indeed “imaginary” when the scheme first launched, as I and many of you had suspected at the time. […]

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Yet Another Santander Bounce Back Loan Goes Bad as Company Director is Hit with a 9 Year Disqualification for Over-Egging Her Business Turnover to Get That Loan

Not only did over-egging her business turnover allow the Company Director named below to get a £40k Bounce Back Loan, but she then went on to get a BBL top-up worth £9k too. However, having taken the insolvency route with the BBL not being paid back, and her over-egging wrongdoing being exposed and reported by the Liquidator, she is now starting a 9-year disqualification. […]