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[ January 13, 2025 ] Andrei Georgescu, Director of Villrose Ltd Banned for 9 Years for Claiming His Company Turnover Was £192,000 to Blag a £48,000 Bounce Back Loan, When His Real Turnover Was Just £547, He Won’t Care Though as He Has Legged it Back to Romania The Disqualification Files
[ January 13, 2025 ] Gary Hall the Director of Shoparound Finance Limited Has His Company Wound Up by HMRC and Gets a Lenient 5 Year Ban for Failing to Repay a CBILS Loan After Getting a Bounce Back Loan, As Required by the Rules of Those Schemes The Disqualification Files
[ January 13, 2025 ] Emal Masood the Director of Emal Safi Limited Hit with a 10 Year Ban for Over-Egging His Company Turnover to Blag a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan from Barclays Bank The Disqualification Files
[ January 13, 2025 ] Ellie Louise Cooper the Director of E L Co (London) Ltd Slapped with an 11 Year Ban for Over-Egging Her Company Turnover to Blag a £50,000 Lloyds Bank Bounce Back Loan and Not Using it for the Benefit of Her Company The Disqualification Files
[ January 13, 2025 ] Avishai Joseph a Sole Trader from Israel but Living on Great North Way, London, Given a 9 Year Bankruptcy Restrictions Order for Blagging a £37,000 Bounce Back Loan for His Business That Wasn’t Trading on March 1st, 2020, as Required by the Rules of the Scheme The Disqualification Files
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January 15, 2025

Customer Complains Santander Snatched His BBL Back After Questioning His Turnover Figure, Ombudsman Doesn’t Uphold the Complaint and Says The Bank Showed Me Something Which Proves They Are Right But I Can’t Tell You What It Was

April 21, 2023

I will leave it to your imagination as to what the Bank showed the Ombudsman in this case, but it swayed them to toss out the complaint. […]

Director Complains HSBC Demanded Her Company’s BBL Back and Snatched Money Out of Her Business Account to Repay the BBL and Closed the Account After Her Business Secured a CBILs – Ombudsman Says They Can Do That

April 21, 2023

As you will see in this case, the Ombudsman sides with the bank. […]

NatWest Ordered to Write Off a Bounce Back Loan as Ombudsman Decides They Told a Company Director to Clear a Debt with the Bank by Applying for a BBL Even Though His Business Wasn’t Trading and Was About to be Struck Off

April 20, 2023

Quite amazed at the decision by the Ombudsman in this case who finally showed some teeth, and he has told NatWest to write off this Company’s Bounce Back Loan for the reasons outlined. […]

Business Owner Complains NatWest Made Him Open a Feeder Account to Get a BBL But He Didn’t Supply the Required Documentation and the Bank Cancels His BBL Application the Ombudsman Says Tough

April 20, 2023

Here is another NatWest Bounce Back Loan related complaint which did not go the way of the complainant […]

Company Director Jumps Through Hoops with Metro Bank to do the Decent Thing and Repay His BBL Early, the Bank Decides to Close His Account, the Ombudsman Says They Can Pick Who They Want as Customers

April 20, 2023

As you will suspect when reading this BBL complaint, something certainly happened inside the Metro Bank branch regarding this case, but ultimately the Ombudsman sides with the bank. […]