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The Insolvency Service has reported that a bankrupt furniture boss, Allan Kenneth Barke, was banned from acting as a director for eight years, after breaching the terms of his previous disqualification. An investigation by the Insolvency Service was triggered into Barke, after Cheshire Fitted Furniture Ltd (CFFL), which he was a director of, went into voluntary liquidation in April 2016. The investigation found that Barke had been declared bankrupt in September 2015, following a petition by the liquidators of another company he was the director of. Barke was charged at Chester Crown Court with one count of acting as the director of CFFL when he was disqualified from doing so and one count of continuing to use a proscribed company name after that business entered liquidation. Barke pleaded guilty to both counts, was banned for eight years, and was given a 22 month prison sentence suspended for two years for a further 22 fraud offences.
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