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Stating His Business Turnover was £200,000 to Get a £50k Barclays Bounce Back Loan and a £10k Local Council Grant When It Was in Fact Just £354 Lands Company Director with an 11-Year Disqualification

May 26, 2022

There currently appears to be no end of Company Directors who decided to take the insolvency route as a way to get out of repaying their Bounce Back Loans, but as today’s case proves, when there was any dodginess involved with obtaining and/or using that loan, it always results in a long disqualification. In this case it was 11 years. […]

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Hefty 11 Year Disqualification Handed Out to Company Director for Over-Egging Turnover to Get a £50k Bounce Back Loan and Not Using it for the Benefit of the Business and for Leaving It Owing at Liquidation

May 25, 2022

A tale of money given to a friend to buy rugs and carpets from Pakistan the proof of which could not be shown with funds from a Bounce Back Loan, and over-egging his business turnover to get that BBL sees a Company Director hit with a hefty 11 year disqualification in this case. […]

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Company Director Over-Eggs Turnover to Get a £30k BBL and Uses Some of It For Personal Benefit Then Agrees to Repay All Sums Owed at Liquidation Over 49 Monthly Repayments Whilst Also Getting an 8 Year Disqualification

May 25, 2022

I have not seen an agreement reached with the Liquidator like the one in the following case, which saw a Company Director hit with an 8-year ban, but also agreeing to repay all funds owned including a Bounce Back Loan at the liquidation of his Company over 49 monthly payments. […]

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Metro Bank Approved a Customers BBL, Pay It Out But Block All Access to Those Funds Then Almost Five Months Later Do Not Honour the Agreement – Customer Asks For £21k In Compensation the Ombudsman Says £500 Is Fair

May 21, 2022

Metro Bank did approve many a Bounce Back Loan when the scheme was live and then snatch many of them back or simply did not pay them out, and weeks later tell the customer their once approved BBL was in fact declined. This case is one of many such complaints that has ended up on the desk of one of the Ombudsmen at the Financial Ombudsman Service about Metro Bank. […]

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

Barclays Approved a BBL for a Company and Pay It Out, Then Lock the Account for a Review Lifting the Block Weeks Later, But then Decide to Snatch Back Every Penny from That Account Weeks Later and Recall The BBL – Ombudsman Says That is Fair

May 19, 2022

Here is the outcome of another case that has taken the Financial Ombudsman Service some time to wrap their heads around, as you will see based on the evidence, they state Barclays were within their rights to snatch back yet another Bounce Back Loan. […]

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Barclays Declined a Customer a Bounce Back Loan As He Was Unable to Prove His Business Was Trading Before March the 1st 2020 – The Financial Ombudsman Service Agree With the Bank and Don’t Uphold His Complaint

May 17, 2022

Even now, the Financial Ombudsman Service is still determining outcomes of complaints related to the Bounce Back Loan Scheme over a year after that scheme closed to new applicants, and here is a case that they have just made a decision on. […]

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The Insolvency Service Officially State When Slapping Someone with an 8 Year Disqualification the Bizarre New Rule Imposed By BEIS (Led By the Shifty Kwasi Kwarteng) That Over-Estimating Your Turnover By Over 25% Of the Permitted 25% Turnover Figure Will Lead to a Slapping if You Take Insolvency Route with a BBL Owing Even If you Were Allowed to Estimate Your Turnover!

May 16, 2022

It’s a funny old world, and with the weird character that is Kwasi Kwarteng being the Minister in charge of BEIS (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) anything is possible. In the first case I have come across, the Insolvency Service are now stating the “rule” no one knew of and which was not in place when the BBL scheme was live that over-estimating by more than 25% of even your estimated turnover when you applied for as BBL will lead to a good slapping, if you take the insolvency route with that BBL still owing. Whilst this is nothing new, as I revealed it back in December 2021 when the National Audit Office told me about it, it is the first time I have seen it used, as you will discover in the case below that saw a Company Director hit with an 8 year disqualification […]