Investors lost £360,000 after a gold trading venture, Sutter Capital Ltd promised annual returns between 15% and 22%, but failed to return any gains or keep adequate accounting records

In the drive to catch bounce back loan fraudsters, bankruptcy restrictions totalling 48 years have been given to five individuals who took £198,894 in Covid-19 financial support

Chartered accountancy firms and members of ICAEW have been fined £267,002 in the last year for failure to comply with anti-money laundering rules

A Leamington Spa man who took a £50,000 bounce back loan against a business which had never traded has been banned from acting as a director

In the first use of new Insolvency Service powers, four directors have been banned after they defaulted on covid bounce back loans by dissolving their businesses

The head golf professional at the Royal Winchester Golf Club has been jailed for five years after defrauding the club out of over £300,000

A company director from Essex has been banned for seven years after failing to explain what she did with £45,000 bounce back loan

A tax avoidance scheme promoter has been hit with a £1,074,600 fine after a legal challenge by HMRC

Four fraudsters have been convicted for fraudulently obtaining and laundering Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency worth tens of millions of pounds from an Australian-based cryptocurrency exchange

Two Somerset farmers have been sentenced over a complex VAT fraud involving claims for a non-existent trekking business

 A London grocer has been disqualified as a director for 10 years after he squandered £50,000 bounce bank loan instead of spending on his company