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Company boss sentenced after breaching directorship ban

Published on: 03 March 2020
Published by LNB News

LNB News 03/03/2020

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Issue Date: 03 March 2020

Published Date: 03 March 2020

Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

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Chelmsford Crown Court has sentenced Mark Bottjer to a ten-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered him to complete 250 hours of community service after he breached his directorship ban. In 2014, Bottjer voluntarily signed a three and a half year disqualification undertaking, when the company he was a director of went into administration. The ban prohibited Bottjer from managing and forming companies without the permission of the court. In breach of the ban, Bottjer continued to act as a director for two packaging companies and attempted to form a third. Bottjer pleaded guilty to three counts of acting as a director while disqualifie and has been banned from directorship for 12 years.

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