According to the latest Insolvency Service figures, 80 per cent more company directors were banned for abusing Covid loan schemes in 2023-24 than in the previous year. This amounts to more than 800 individuals who were banned on average for more than 10 years. As a spokesman for the Insolvency Service commented, the agency is […]

Former Apprentice contestant Raj Dhonota has spoken out about a recent year-long police investigation that finally put paid to claims of fraudulent behaviour during bankruptcy. Mr Dhonota starred in the first-ever series of the popular TV series aired in 2005, four years after the businessman was first declared bankrupt. He was fired by Lord Sugar in week […]

A nationwide fraud investigation, called Operation Henhouse, has led to a “record” number of arrests for fraud, with a 52 per cent increase in the number of arrests that the operation achieved in the previous year. This multi-agency initiative ran across February and March this year and has led to 438 arrests, the freezing of […]