The Disqualification Files

This section of the website looks in detail at everyone given a Director Ban or a Bankruptcy Restrictions Order for Bounce Back Loan related wrongdoing, along with full details of what each person did, and occasionally other wrongdoing that resulted in a defaulted BBL.

The Insolvency Service recently said: “We expect to see a reduction in Covid Scheme related outcomes during 25/26 as we work through the pool of Bounce Back Loan cases”.

They have also warned that a BBL must be repaid and if the money your company borrowed is not repaid; your company may be investigated by the Insolvency Service, even if it has been dissolved.

If we find there was misconduct in the use of the BBL, action may be taken against you and your company.

Types of misconduct can include, providing false information on loan application, the loan being used for personal benefit and/or dissolving your company to avoid repaying the loan

As a result of the misconduct your company could be wound up by the Court, you could be disqualified as a director, and a Court Order may be made for you to pay compensation.

Just a 7 Year Disqualification for a Company Director Who Couldn’t or Wouldn’t Prove a £40k Barclays Bounce Back Loan His Company Applied for was Spent on the Business and Whether it Was Eligible for that BBL

September 20, 2022

The increase in Company Directors choosing to fail to maintain, and/or preserve or alternatively not deliver to the Liquidator their accounting records when taking the insolvency route with a Bounce Back Loan is interesting, for here is yet another case of a Director who got a noticeably lower disqualification than he would have got if such records were available and proved BBL wrongdoing. […]

Insolvency Service Whacks Another Company Director with a 10 Year Ban for Over-Estimating His Estimated Turnover When Applying for a £50k Barclays Bounce Back Loan

September 20, 2022

A Barclays £50k Bounce Back Loan is what this case revolves around and is another prime example of why those who over-estimated even their permitted estimated turnover to get one of those loans have a lot to worry about if they take the insolvency route and leave that loan unpaid. […]

Claiming Her Business Turnover Was £130k When It Was In Fact £4892 and Getting a £30k Bounce Back Loan on the Strength of That Over-Egged Turnover Leads to a 10 Year Disqualification

September 16, 2022

Here is another sorry tale of a Company Director blagging a Bounce Back Loan and leaving it unpaid, resulting in the taxpayer picking up the tab and her getting a 10-year disqualification. […]

Bounce Back Loan and Job Retention Scheme Wrongdoing Results in a Company Director Getting a Hefty 12 Year Disqualification

September 16, 2022

A 12-year ban has just been handed to the Company Director below, who applied for and got a Bounce Back Loan when she had taken steps to place her Company into a CVL, and also getting over £60k to which her Company was not entitled to via the Job Retention Scheme. […]

Company Director Given an 11 Year Ban for Getting a £50k Bounce Back Loan from Barclays When Only Eligible for £12,950 and Another Also Given an 11 Year Ban for Getting a £45k NatWest BBL When Only Eligible for £4,428

September 15, 2022

Getting a Bounce Back Loan by over-egging their turnover, then spending most of it on themselves and not the business, and ultimately taking the insolvency route has resulted in the two Company Directors named below being given 11-year disqualifications, which they are now starting. […]