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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 6, 2025

Barclays Claim on the Government Guarantee After a Company Director Over-Egged His Turnover to Get a £50k BBL and Never Paid it Back, He Has Just Been Given a 10 Year Ban

August 10, 2023

Even though the Company Director named in this case was permitted to estimate his turnover, he still was slapped with a 10 year ban for over-estimating it. […]

Having Got a Lloyds Bank BBL for Her Business Days Before the BBL Scheme Closed to Applicants, a Company Director Then Transferred it to Herself and Never Paid it Back, and is Now Starting a 6 Year Ban

August 10, 2023

This is one of the much more lenient Director bans handed out for BBL wrongdoing, that being a […]

10 Year Ban Given to Company Director Who Decided to Chance Her Luck and Apply for Two Bounce Back Loans for Her Business, Which She Got, When Her Company Was Only Eligible for One

August 10, 2023

It was Lloyds Bank and Barclays who approved and paid out the two BBL’s mentioned in this case, both of which were never paid back in full. […]

10 Year Ban for Company Director Based in Stretford, Manchester Who Blagged a Bounce Back Loan from the Royal Bank of Scotland By Over-Egging His Turnover

August 10, 2023

Slowly but surely, they are locating and punishing Company Directors who blagged the BBL scheme and took the Insolvency Route, and the one named in this case has just been given a 10 year ban for blagging a BBL back in September 2020. […]

Southend-on-Sea Based Company Director Given an 11 Year Ban for Over-Egging His Turnover to Get a Metro Bank BBL and Then Transferring £30k to Himself and Not Repaying the BBL

August 9, 2023

This case looks at yet another Metro Bank approved Bounce Back Loan then was never repaid. […]