There is of course no “typical” look of a Bounce Back Loan blagger, they come in all shapes and sizes.
But for those of you who are curious and want to put faces to the names of those convicted of blagging the BBL scheme, and some others who blagged the BBL scheme but got off lightly, here are pictures of some of them.
For more information on what they did, follow the links provided to view a full report on each individual case.
Catherine Deegan:
Father and Daughter Gerard and Catherine Deegan Got FIVE Bounce Back Loans, the Latter Used the Money as a Lottery Win – They Have Just Been Given Suspended Prison Sentences
Syed Hussain:
Having Already Been Locked Up For Abusing the BBL Scheme Last August, Syed Hussain the Director of Magic of Spice Ltd Has Just Been Ordered to Repay £36,200 Of The Money he Blagged
Attila Kovacs:
Attila Kovacs of Gloucester Road Bristol Given a 19 Month Prison Sentence for Blagging Two Bounce Back Loans for His Imaginary Businesses and Using the Money Like a Lottery Win
Gerald Smith:
Gerald Smith Convicted at Southwark Crown Court of Bounce Back Loan Fraud and Using a £50,000 BBL For Personal Benefit – He Will Be Sentenced in September
Having Been Found Guilty in July of Blagging a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan and Gobsmackingly Using Some of It To Pay Off an Existing Court Order, a 69 Year Old Businessman Has Just Been Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison
Glyn Drabble:
Social Club Treasurer Locked Up for 38 Months For a £397,920 Fraud Which Included a Good Chunk of a £40,000 Bounce Back Loan
David Farrah-Tunnicliffe:
Covid Business Grant Scammer Who Also Helped Blag a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan Locked Up for 4 Years and 2 Months, With the Rest of His Gang Getting Suspended Sentences
Timilehin Yvette Olasemo and Olufumi David Akinneye
Pair of Scammers Banged Up for Completely Exploiting the Bounce Back Loan Scheme by Making Multiple Fraudulent Bounce Back Loan Applications
Artem Terzyan and Deivis Grochiatskij:
Two Men Locked Up For a Total Of 33 Years For An Outrageous £10million Bounce Back Loan Scam
The Inside Story of a Crime Gang That Stole Millions of Pounds in Bounce Back Loans Featuring the National Crime Agency, Lord Agnew, Boris, Rishi and Me!
Louis Glyn Maxwell:
Newport Bankrupt Abused Bounce Back Loan to Fund Drug Habit
Shafiqur Rahman:
With a Santander Not Willing to Fund an Investigation as to Where a £25k Bounce Back Loan Went After a Company Director Blagged That BBL a Director Gets Banned for 11 Years But Does Generously Repay £1
Asif Hussain and Ibraaz Shafique:
Crime Gang Members Asif Hussain and Ibraaz Shafique Locked Up for 15 Years and 5 Years Respectively for an Array of Crimes Including Blagging Three Bounce Back Loans Between Them
Stephen Burke:
Getting Four Bounce Back Loans for Four of His Companies By Massively Over-Egging Turnover Then Leaving Them Unpaid at Insolvency Sees Company Director Hit with an 11 Year Disqualification
Jiro Wilson:
Judge Proclaims “It Seems to Have Been Obscenely Easy to Scam the State to Get a Bounce Back Loan” as He Locks Up (For 6 Years) a BBL Abuser
Judge Labels a £50K BBL Scammer a ‘Dishonest Parasite” and Orders Him, at The End of a Proceeds of Crime Hearing, to Repay a Modest £37,230 of the £373,939 He Scammed From a BBL Lender and Others
Gary Betts, Chris Sammon, John Sammon, Gerry Boyle, Wayne Simmonds and William Skillen:
Judge Left Ranting As He Discovers the Drugs Gang Members He Was Trying For Conspiracy to Kidnap, Had Blagged a £25,000 Bounce Back Loan and Demands Answer As to How and Why They Got It
Jamie Spencer:
Judge Locks Up Drugs Gang Member For Two Years With an Additional 6 Months For Over-Egging His Turnover to Get a Bounce Back Loan
David and Jennifer Elderkin
Jennifer and David Elderkin the Directors of Fowey River Limited Given a 4 and 8 Year Ban Respectively for Using Funds from a Barclays Bounce Back Loan Obtained By Over-Egging Their Turnover for Personal Benefit
Jacqueline Docherty
Jacqueline Docherty the Director of Ashley Alexander Hair Studio Ltd Slapped with a 10 Year Ban for Over-Egging Her Company Turnover to Blag a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan from Barclays
Declan Foulston
11 Year Disqualification for Company Director Who Obtained Two Bounce Back Loans for His One Single Company Didn’t Schedule the Second Loan as a Liability in the Signed Statement of Affairs at Liquidation and Used Funds For Personal Benefit