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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
Bankrupt nightclub boss from Bristol has been sentenced after he continued to manage companies despite being banned from doing so.
We interviewed the husband and wife team behind Edinburgh’s first zero waste shop. A community interest company putting planet and purpose before profits.
A pair of married property directors have been ordered by the courts to pay back £182,000 having abused the company’s bank account.
Company director has had his bankruptcy restrictions extended for his role in causing a finance company to lose more than £177,000
The Insolvency Service is warning people to guard their pension savings from investment scammers and negligent trustees.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Two companies have been placed in provisional liquidation following applications to the court by the Insolvency Service.
Courts shut down five companies that carried out investment scams promising high-value truffles for commercial sales.
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Previously disqualified husband and wife have been sentenced after committing a large-scale publishing fraud.
Publisher seeking sponsorship for schools drug awareness booklet has been placed into provisional liquidation by the High Court.
United Nations (UN) sanctions have led to extra checks on applications to register some corporate bodies.
A specialist horse researcher has been jailed for 4-and-a-half years after she defrauded a series of organisations to clear her debts.
Interior design company has been wound up in by the courts after it was found to be used as a vehicle to fraudulently secure credit.
Two garage bosses banned after they allowed a disqualified director, who happened to be their husband and ex-husband respectively, to run their company.
We interviewed 3 of the founding directors of a community focused theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Personal injury claims boss jailed for 21 months after fraudulently removing company funds in the months before the courts would make a winding-up order resulting in the closure of the business.
A property investment company, which operated a ‘Ponzi scheme’, shut down by the High Court for misusing close to £20m of investors’ money.
Two London printers have been shut down by the courts for failing to complete contracts despite receiving advanced payments.
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