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[ July 3, 2025 ] July 3rd 2025 – The Department for Business and Trade Release Their “Counter Fraud Strategy” Hinting at Their New Efforts to Recover Funds from COVID-19 Grants and BBL’s, as a Result of Fraud and Error, and Managing Credit Losses/Fraud in COVID-19 Loan Guarantee Schemes. PFSA3
[ July 3, 2025 ] Liverpool’s Diogo Jota and Brother Die in Fatal Car Crash Gambling
[ July 3, 2025 ] Government Gives a Big Thumbs Up to My Helpline Callers That Have Already Got Themselves off the BBL Naughty List by Setting up an Affordable Repayment Plan – Take a Look at the Feedback from Those That Have and Those That Have Been Knocked Back PFSA3
[ July 3, 2025 ] Paul Gray the Director of Ceramic Porcelain Stone Company Limited Slapped with a 10 Year Ban Which Starts Today, the 3rd of July 2025, for Claiming His Turnover Was £200k to Get a £50k Lloyds Bounce Back Loan When Investigators Discovered That Turnover Was £125k The Disqualification Files
[ July 2, 2025 ] Liverpool Says No to Bayern’s Bid for Luis Diaz Gambling
[ July 2, 2025 ] John Awen the Director of Ethical-Fest Ltd, Slapped with an 11 Year Ban, Which Starts Today the 2nd of July 2025, for Blagging a £50,000 NatWest Bounce Back Loan by Over-Egging His Company Turnover which wasn’t Eligible for the BBL in the First Place, and Misusing the Funds The Disqualification Files
[ July 2, 2025 ] Christina Roxana Simion the Director of Emanuel-Gabriel Ltd, from Romania, Starting a 12 Year Ban Today, the 2nd of July 2025 for Blagging a Barclays BBL by Over-Egging the Turnover for That Company Which Wasn’t Eligible for a BBL as it Wasn’t Trading on the 1st of March 2020, and Misusing the Funds The Disqualification Files
[ July 1, 2025 ] Al Hilal Kicks Out Man City in Extra-Time Thriller at Club World Cup Gambling
[ July 1, 2025 ] Faheem Ahmed the Director of T K International 1 Ltd Starting a 10 Year Ban Today, the 1st of July 2025, for Even Though He Was Allowed to Estimate His Turnover to Get a BBL It Was Decided He Over-Estimated That Estimated Turnover and Therefore Blagged a £48,750 Metro Bank BBL The Disqualification Files
[ July 1, 2025 ] Tariq Haq, the Director of Integral Maintenance Team Limited, Slapped with an 11 Year Ban Which Starts Today the 1st of July 2025, for Over-Egging His Company Turnover by Over 11 Times the True Value to Blag a £50k Santander BBL and Misusing the BBL Funds The Disqualification Files
[ June 30, 2025 ] How the Public Sector Fraud Authority Enforcement Unit Will Use the Personal Data of Those They Go After in the “BBL Winter of Regret” for Blagging a Bounce Back Loan Including Monitoring and Recording Their Social Media Account Interactions and Friends/Associates PFSA3
[ June 30, 2025 ] Tomos Williams Out for Lions Tour, Ben White Called Up Gambling
[ June 30, 2025 ] Shahid Amin the Director of Engineering Project Management Ltd Given an 11 Year Ban Which Starts Today, the 30th of June 2025 for Over-Egging His Company Turnover to Blag a £50,000 HSBC BBL and Paying Most of it to Himself The Disqualification Files
[ June 30, 2025 ] David Withey the Director of Withey’s Welding & Steel Fabrication Ltd Slapped with a 3 Year 6 Month Ban for Trading to the Detriment of HMRC Which Also Resulted in a Bounce Back Loan Being Left Unpaid The Disqualification Files
[ June 30, 2025 ] Giorgio Ghezzi of Lords View, St. Johns Wood Road, London, Slapped with an 11 Year Bankruptcy Restrictions Order for Blagging a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan to Which He Wasn’t Entitled The Disqualification Files

July 5, 2025

HSBC Snatch Every Penny in a Sole Traders Business Account to Repay a Bounce Back Loan They Demanded Back – Ombudsman Says That Is What They Do and Toss Out His Complaint

April 24, 2023

I have seen a plethora of similar complaints to this one, in which the Ombudsman says banks can and do snatch money from business owners accounts when they demand back a Bounce Back Loan. […]

Lloyds Bank Customer Denies Applying for a Bounce Back Loan and Says He Never Transferred the Funds Out of His Account and Therefore Shouldn’t Have to Repay It – The Ombudsman Doesn’t Believe Him

April 24, 2023

Having investigated this case the Ombudsman lays out all of the reasons that led him to side with Lloyds Bank and throw out the complainants complaint. […]

Sole Trader Complains That After Applying for a Bounce Back Loan Barclays Declined it then Closed His Account – Ombudsman Says Be Happy with the £200 Compensation They’ve Already Given You

April 24, 2023

As you will see from the outcome of this case, the Ombudsman determines Barclays are not obliged to explain why they declined a Sole Traders Bounce Back Loan application and then decided to close his account. […]

Ombudsman Tells HSBC to Stop Lying About Company Directors Being Personally Liable for a Bounce Back Loan and Pay £150 to a Customer They Said That To

April 21, 2023

Here is another case of bank staff lying to BBL customers, or as they prefer to say, “making a mistake”, have a read of it and as you will see this customer got £150 in compensation which he wasn’t happy with. […]

NatWest Customer Complains She Applied for a Bounce Back Loan in the Name of Her Ltd Company But the Bank Put It In Her Own Name as a Sole Trader – Ombudsman Says Tough You Are Liable

April 21, 2023

Here is another NatWest BBL related complaint, which in this instance and for the reasons outlined, the Ombudsman tossed out and sided with the bank. […]