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

The boss of a skip company has been banned for seven years after failing to provide accounting records for over £1m of payments

A takeaway owner from Kent has been banned for seven years after undeclaring orders to avoid paying £265,000 worth of taxes

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)

A Luton-based money service business (MSB) has been hit with a record £23.8m fine for flouting money laundering regulations

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

The director of a window cleaning company who could not account for £1.7m of expenses has been disqualified from managing companies for seven years

The owner of a Norwich takeaway has been banned from being a director for seven years, after avoiding paying £400,000 owing to HMRC

Two brothers who ran a London restaurant have been banned for a total of 12 years for failing to pay £173,000 in taxes

The director of a women’s clothing manufacturer has been banned as a company director for six years after failing to pay a £98,000 tax bill

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