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Insight | Winchester golf pro holed by £100k fraud

The head golf professional at the Royal Winchester Golf Club has been found guilty of fraud after he under-reported the value of green fees paid by visitors to the club over a five-year period

24 Jun 2022

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Insight | Fraudster jailed over £70k tax repayment claims

A tax fraudster has been jailed after making £70,000 of tax repayment claims to HMRC using self assessment tax returns

24 Jun 2022

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Insight | Companies struck off over £85k covid loan abuse

Two connected companies have been wound up in court after they abused multiple local authorities to receive covid support loans worth £85,000 they were not entitled to

23 Jun 2022

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Insight | Ex-footballer given suspended sentence for £3.2m tax fraud

Former Cameroon and Chelsea footballer Samuel Eto’o has been sentenced in a Spanish court in a dispute over tax paid on image rights when he first played at Barcelona in the mid 2000s

22 Jun 2022

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Insight | Bankrupt banned over £50k bounce back loan

A bankrupt from north London has been given eight years of additional restrictions after he applied for bounce back loan for a bogus business

21 Jun 2022

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Insight | Man sentenced over HMRC phone scam

A Norfolk man who allowed his bank account to be used to steal more than £4,000 in two separate scams has been sentenced

17 Jun 2022

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Insight | Directors falsely applied for £100k bounce back loans

The directors of a distressed building firm have been disqualified from running businesses after taking thousands in ineligible bounce back loans

16 Jun 2022

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Insight | HMRC hands out £12.5m in fines for tax evaders

A fish seller, buy-to-let landlords and a crypto investor, not to mention an accountant and bookkeeper, all failed to pay their taxes and face millions of pounds in penalties

15 Jun 2022

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Insight | Charity used £450k property sale to fund luxury travel

The Charity Commission has ordered a charity to improve its governance and financial controls after mismanagement of funds and undocumented spending

15 Jun 2022

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Insight | Former footballer given six-year bankruptcy restrictions

Former professional footballer now coaching abroad chose to pay off £120,000 gambling debts ahead of other creditors

14 Jun 2022

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Insight | Most wanted HMRC tax fugitive jailed over £20m VAT fraud

One of the UK’s most wanted tax fugitives has been jailed for eight years after spending nine years on the run for £20m VAT fraud

13 Jun 2022

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Insight | Directors banned over £8.9m hotel room investment scheme

A total of 25 years in bans has been slapped on the directors behind a £8.9m hotel room investment scheme

10 Jun 2022

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Insight | Reality TV stars convicted of $30m fraud and tax evasion

Following a three-week trial, a US jury found reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley guilty of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more than $30m (£24m) of fraudulent loans

9 Jun 2022

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