A former NHS executive and chartered accountant, who siphoned almost £1.5m from several companies, including those that care for vulnerable adults, has been jailed after a six-year investigation

Stockport furniture boss banned for eight years after declaring bankruptcy before starting a new company with a prohibited name

A Kenilworth scaffolder has been banned for four years after spending £142,000 prior to bankruptcy to avoid paying creditors

Two property directors have been banned for 25 years after misusing £7.7m taken from investors for student accommodation never completed

A man who set up an illegal money service business (MSB) and bought a £700,000 house with the profits, has been ordered to pay back nearly £1m or face jail

The latest HMRC deliberate defaulters list shows that £5.7m in penalties are outstanding for tax evasion and related non-payment for the latest quarter

An Essex surveyor has been banned for five years after failing to provide adequate accounting records and owing HMRC over £130,000 in unpaid tax

The Charity Commission has disqualified the former trustee of an educational charity over his involvement in the transfer of large sums of charity money that remain unaccounted for

A Birmingham director has landed an 11-year ban from holding directorships after obtaining close to £635,000 worth of government grants to plant forests in England

In this month’s round-up of director bans, tax evasion and accounting fraud, fashion boss jailed as accounts unravel, drinks company that falsified accounts faces £300k collapse and administration services firm boss banned for £373k VAT fraud

A freight company that helped transport items around the world wound up in court for failing to deliver goods after taking payment from customers

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended two former KPMG auditors from practicing before the SEC in connection with settled charges against the two for improper professional conduct during an audit of a not-for-profit college