The boss of a Leicester clothing manufacturer has been jailed for six months after failing to provide adequate company accounting records, or to pay £300,000 in tax
In this month’s round-up of significant director bans and tax evasion, director banned over faked £190k tax rebate claim and seven-year ban for caterer over missing £265k in tax
The director of a Leeds finance company has been banned for 11 years after adding more than £12m in false entries to company records over a three-year period, to conceal the true amount of money loaned to clients
A day trader who was jailed for three years for insider dealing has now been ordered to repay £3.9m from the proceeds of his crime within the next month, or face a further five years in prison
A director from Manchester has been banned for 11 years after falsifying bank statements and invoices to fraudulently claim some £190,000 in tax repayments
A Surrey electrician has been banned from running companies for seven years after failing to explain the legitimacy of close to £1m of expenses taken out of the company bank account
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $120m (£89m) to resolve bribery charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
In this month’s scandals, convictions and penalties, window cleaning company director disqualified for unaccounted £1.7m, property developed jailed over diverting funds to their account, and suspended prison sentence for bankrupt who avoided inheritance tax windfall
Accountancy Daily brings you a selection of cases involving members of the accounting profession – and a few others – who did not escape the long arm of the law during 2020