The Department for Business and Trade Defend James McMurdock MP, Saying They Won’t Confirm or Deny He’s Got (or Blagged) Any Bounce Back Loans as an Earlier Court Case The Department Won Prevents Them from Doing So – The Information Commissioners Office Agrees – Citing Rishi Sunak’s Wife’s “Iffy” Government Backed Loans

To put this story into some context, way back in November 2022 the British Business Bank, which is part of the Department for Business and Trade, went before to a Tribunal Judge to stop them being forced to name, when asked, anyone who got a Bounce Back Loan.

That case was brought against them by Spotlight on Corruption and James Francis Pearce, to cut a long story short the British Business Bank won that case and as such anyone asking them to confirm or deny whether anyone or any business has a BBL will be met with a refusal and a wall of since thereafter.

>The Tribunal Decision to Name Everyone with a Bounce Back Loan Has Just Been Published, Your Personal Details and the Fact You Got a BBL Are To Remain Completely Confidential – Read the Verdict

Now, much more recently, word got out that Companies linked to James McMurdock MP had got Bounce Back Loans, on which there are allegedly questions to be answered, and as such someone, I imagine one of the journalists sniffing around the story, decided to go to the Information Commissioners Office in the hope they would overturn the decision by the Department for Business and Trade to refuse to confirm or deny such, with Freedom of Information Requests they had submitted.

For reference James himself, in a now deleted post on X, formerly Twitter, did question why he had been referred, by the Covid Corruption Fraud Commissioner, to the Public Sector Fraud Authority, who, amongst other things, look into, investigate and chase those accused of blagging funds from the Government.

If he has been referred, then the most likely course of action they would have taken, if he had done anything wrong, would have been for them to write to him and tell him to get in touch with the BBL Lenders and pay them back, either in full or set up a repayment plan and warn him that if he doesn’t they “could” come after him, below is a copy of the letter they tend to send out:

Here is a Copy of the Letter the Public Sector Fraud Authority Have Sent Out to The Initial Batch of Suspected Bounce Back Loan Blaggers – Check to See What They Offer You and/or the Threats They Use and the Timeline You Have

Information Commissioners Office Judgment

As you will see in the final judgement below, even Rishi Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty is mentioned in the judgement; I have covered her somewhat “questionable” Government backed loans and grants and business dealings plenty of times in the past:

Rishi Sunak’s Wife and the Defaulted £37,500 Lloyds Bank Bounce Back Loan

Two More Businesses Associated With Rishi Sunak’s wife Shaft HMRC and the Future Fund

Education Start-up Backed by Rishi Sunak’s Spouse Receives £350,000 UK Grant

Rishi Sunak’s Family’s “Immigration Abuse” Shame Revealed – His Wife’s Dad’s Firm, That They All Do Very Nicely, Thank You From Was Heavily Fined for Breaking Immigration Laws for Profit

Dodgy Set of Accounts Submitted for Catamaran Ventures by Akshata Murthy Detailing a Mysterious “Rishi Sunak Loan”, She Brushes Off Claims They Were Dodgy and Says There Was An Oh So Innocent Administration Error – Pull the Other One Love, It’s Got Bells On

I’ve Uncovered the Grubby, Shocking Links Between Rishi Sunak’s Wife, Akshata Murty and the Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe, and How Digme Fitness, They Were Both Directors of, Went Bust after Bagging £630,000 in Furlough Payments, and Skanking Us Out of £6.1m in Unpaid VAT and PAYE

Anyway, grab yourself a coffee and read the judgment below: