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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 4, 2025

Barclays Customer Demands £2,500 Compensation for Barclays Messing Up His BBL Six Month Repayment Break PAYG Option and Subsequently Removing His Business Overdraft – Ombudsman Says You Can Have £400

August 21, 2024

This is another Barclays related BBL complaint that has been upheld. […]

NatWest Default a Customers BBL and Log a Credit File Marker Against His Company, He complains Saying As He Set Up a Repayment Plan They Should Remove the Marker, the Ombudsman Says No

August 21, 2024

The Ombudsman can order a bank to remove such a maker, but as you will see in this case they decided not to. […]

Barclays De-Bank a Customer Resulting in His BBL Defaulting, He Submits a Complaint Too Late to the Ombudsman Who Ask Barclays Do They Consent to the Complaint Being Handled, They Say No Way – Ombudsman Says Be Happy with the £75 Compensation They’ve Given You

August 21, 2024

Here is another BBL complaint that has just been decided upon. […]

Ombudsman States the Government Chose to Make BBLs Specifically Exempt from the Regulations that Apply to Consumer Lending So Expecting Barclays to Show a Large Graph Showing Interest Payments Due Each Month on a BBL Would be Too Much Like Hard Work

August 8, 2024

Here is a yet another, very recent complaint tossed out by the Ombudsman. […]

Ombudsman Kicks HSBC’s Backside and Despite Their Protests Orders Them to Pay a Customer £300 Compensation For Mental Torture and Stop Holding Her Personally Liable for Yet Another BBL They Put In a Personal Name and Not the Name of a Ltd Company

August 7, 2024

It is good to see HSBC getting their backsides yet again kicked for their wicked actions. […]