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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

All Freedom of Information Requests Received by and the Replies Sent Out by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Related to Bounce Back Loans

July 22, 2021

I asked for and have been sent every single Freedom of Information Request received by and the replies sent out by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) that are in any way shape or form related to Bounce Back Loans, and as such here they all […]

The British Business Bank Do Not Know the Percentage of Recovery Loan Scheme Applicants that are Being Approved for Loans

June 24, 2021

I find it rather strange that the British Business Bank claim not to know the percentage of Recovery Loan Scheme applicants that are being approved for loans, and this is what they have to say: […]

British Business Bank Admit 85 of Approx 450 Employees/Board Members Have Conflicts of Interests

June 24, 2021

It is probably no surprise to learn a large number of British Business Bank employees/Board Members have conflicts of interest and here is what that organisation has to say on that matter. […]

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation within the British Business Bank

June 22, 2021

With many organisations adopting a range of different artificial intelligence schemes and tools, this Freedom of Information Request is asking the British Business Bank if they have adopted any of them or intend to. […]

British Business Bank Live and Ongoing Contracts

June 22, 2021

Someone submitted a Freedom of Information request to the British Business Bank asking questions about their Contracts Register and live and ongoing contracts, below you will find their reply. […]