A company director has been disqualified for 11 years after participating in a multimillion pound umbrella company tax avoidance scheme

A rogue property developer promised investors substantial returns but instead operated a ponzi property scheme as well as transferring funds abroad

The number of company directors disqualified by the Insolvency Service fell by 24% in the last year, from 1,280 the year before to 972 in 2020/21, says UHY Hacker Young

A former accountant from Burton-on-Trent has been given five years of additional bankruptcy restrictions after transferring £145,000 in shares to avoid paying creditors

A used car salesman has been given a community sentence after failing to keep accounting records and an unpaid six-figure tax bill

Lancashire bankrupt Neil Maloney was sentenced to 21 months, suspended for two years, for fraud offences after taking more than £26,000 in credit from a car parts distributor

An Essex based company director has been disqualified for seven years after he cleared the bank account of a letting company following its liquidation

The former trustees of a poverty relief charity, who were jailed for stealing over £500,000 from it have been ordered to pay the money back

Brothers James and William Moir join their father as disqualified directors after £14m worth of investments were taken for holiday chalets never built or owned

Zurich-based insurer Swiss Life Holding AG has agreed to pay $77.4m (£54.9m) to US tax authorities and has signed a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve the US case which accused the firm of helping wealthy American clients evade taxes

A Cardiff director who illegally managed several companies during an eight-year ban has been given a suspended sentence

The founder and director of former children’s charity, Little Heroes Cancer Trust, was sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment after being found guilty of fraud and theft in March 2021