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Four connected companies wound up after they were found to fraudulently secure close to $600,000 from overseas investors.
“Do not engage with recovery schemes” warns the Official Receiver to those who previously invested funds through Essex and London Properties Limited.
A magazine publisher based in The Wirral that falsely claimed to produce magazines supporting the emergency services has been wound up in court.
Stakeholders are being asked to give views on the current regulatory framework for insolvency practitioners in the UK following changes introduced in 2015.
Disqualified boss sentenced after using his son and long-term associate as directors to help him run Halifax company illegally behind the scenes.
A Spalding company director who submitted fraudulent insurance claims for stolen agricultural equipment has received a 12-year bankruptcy restrictions order.
Student housing investors have been jailed after establishing a ‘Ponzi’-type scheme to pay-off financiers of their previously failed companies.
Two companies that failed to supply over £3 million of popular toys and gadgets in time for Christmas have been wound-up in Court.
The Official Receiver calls for guests with upcoming reservations to come forward after the company that ran Charnwood Lodge hotel in Loughborough was wound-up.
A London-based company that offered unauthorised investment opportunities to the public has been wound-up in court.
Magazine publisher based in The Wirral has been placed into provisional liquidation by the High Court.
Healthcare Environmental Services Limited entered into liquidation on 25 April 2019 and BDO LLP were appointed as Liquidators.
A company offering unauthorised asset investment opportunities has been placed into provisional liquidation by the courts.
Darlington company that sold investment opportunities in renewable energy plants has been shut down after it failed to pay back millions of investors’ funds.
Two companies involved in what appears to be a fraudulent art investment scheme have been shut down after abusing close to £1.4 million of investors’ money.
Preston company behind online small business directory shut down by the courts after customers complained they were harassed to pay bills they did not owe.
Courts have shut down two rogue timeshare claims specialists based in Chester for failing to deliver advertised services.
Court winds-up Leicester-based IT supplier after it continued the work of two connected companies that had already been shut down a year earlier.
Courts shut down a Stockport-based company that targeted small businesses to sponsor sham drug awareness campaigns for schools
A pair of married property directors have been ordered by the courts to pay back £182,000 having abused the company’s bank account.
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