The director of a West Midlands construction company has been disqualified for seven years after he failed to declare all the company’s sales income, resulting in an under-payment of VAT totalling over £200,000
Two former trustees, one of whom was an accountant, have been disqualified following a joint agency investigation and a Charity Commission inquiry which found serious misconduct and mismanagement in the charities they were running
A Gloucester security services company director, who was jailed for a £497,000 tax fraud, must pay back £67,424 or face another two years in jail and still owe the money
The Charity Commission has heavily criticised the trustees of the Presidents Club Charitable Trust, which hit the headlines over incidents of harassment at a fundraising dinner, with a report citing ‘significant failures’ which meant they were in breach of a number of their key trustee duties
The directors of two pension companies shut down in the public interest have received bans totalling 21 years for their role in the companies’ mismanagement of members’ funds
A Staffordshire man jailed for money laundering last year has been told he must pay back more than £98,000 within three months or face another 12 months in jail
A former managing director with BDO in Jersey has been jailed for defrauding clients of £2.6m, with the court told he used the money to fund an ‘extravagant lifestyle’ which included buying a Formula 1 racing car and paying off debts relating to companies in which he had invested
Credit Suisse Group is to pay around $30m (£22.6m) to US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle charges the bank obtained investment banking business in the Asia-Pacific region by corruptly influencing foreign officials in violation of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
Two bosses who involved their companies in complex missing trader intracommunity (MTIC) fraud schemes using artificially extended trading schemes in attempts to reclaim millions of pounds of VAT fraudulently have received lengthy director bans
A former builder from Hampshire, who falsely claimed £750,000 of VAT repayments to pay for gambling and living expenses, has been jailed for two years and eight months following an investigation by HMRC
The director of a publicly-funded LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) helpline who paid herself nearly £150,000 while failing to meet PAYE liabilities has been banned from holding office for three and half years
In this month's roundup of cases and disqualifications, landlord sentenced over failure to disclose tax, couple disqualified after taking assets from insolvent company, father and son jailed over £1m VAT fraud
