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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

Barclays Paid Out a £46k BBL to a Company That Was Not Trading and Its Director Who Had Submitted Dormant Accounts for Three Years Ends Up with a 9 Year Disqualification for Blagging that BBL

July 18, 2022

A Company had an income of just £845 paid by the Director and even though he has submitted dormant accounts for three years, Barclays still paid out a £46k to the Company in today’s case, which resulted in a 9-year disqualification. […]

5 Year Disqualification for Company Director Who Did Not Use a Bounce Back Loan for the Benefit of the Business

July 18, 2022

One of the more lenient disqualifications to present to you today, which saw just a five year one being handed out to a Company Director who did not use a BBL for the benefit of the business. […]

Sole Trader Slapped with a 10 Year Bankruptcy Restrictions Order for Over-Egging His Turnover and Using His BBL for Personal Benefit

July 18, 2022

Whilst it may appear that it is Company Directors who are being hit with disqualifications when winding up their Companies with a BBL owing and wrongdoing comes to light, many Sole Traders have also taken the bankruptcy route thinking it’s a good way to get out of repaying their BBL. […]

A 7 Year Disqualification Has Just Been Handed Out to a Company Director Who Got a £50k Santander Bounce Back Loan for a Business That Wasn’t Trading Had No Turnover, and She Didn’t Use it for the Benefit of that Business

July 15, 2022

The Company Director in today’s case, nearly had a full house of Bounce Back Loan wrongdoing as you will see and has just been slapped with a seven year disqualification. […]

A Modest 4 Year Disqualification for Another Company Director Who Got a Bounce Back Loan But Didn’t Use It For the Benefit of His Business

July 14, 2022

There is no let up in the number of Company Directors currently being hit with disqualifications of varying lengths for some form of BBL wrongdoing after taking out one of those loans and leaving it owing at liquidation, and today’s case saw a somewhat lenient 4 year disqualification being handed out. […]