The Insolvency Service has announced that Adrian Nunn, aged 55, has been disqualified as a director for 11 years after falsely accounting over £2.3m to his company, The Upper Scale Limited, over six years until 2017. Nunn’s actions resulted in the business owing £940,000 in unpaid tax at the point of liquidation.

The Insolvency Service has banned Nazia Khan, a sales consultant based in Dubai, from serving as company director for nine years for fraudulently securing a £25,000 bounce back loan (BBL) for her inactive company, LC247 Limited, by falsely declaring a £100,000 turnover. Khan misappropriated the funds for personal use, contravening the scheme's regulations and the company went into liquidation in February 2022, with debts surpassing £28,000.

The Insolvency Service has banned Rupinder Kaur Thaker, a company director from Essex, from being involved in the management, promotion or formation of a company for seven years after she was unable to explain the legitimacy of the company’s financial affairs, particularly what she did with a £45,000 bounce back loan.

The Insolvency Service has issued a six-year ban to director, Shakar Habib, of Vista Training Solutions Limited, which provided training to students through apprenticeship schemes. Habib failed to keep adequate company accounts and could not explain £3.5m in company spending that included more than £2.5m of public funding.

The Insolvency Service has announced that Michael Hansen, aged 42, has been disqualified as a director for ten years after claiming a £40,000 Bounce Back Loan (BBL) to which his business was not entitled, having overstated the turnover of his engineering firm.

The Insolvency Service has banned the owner of a Cumbria pizzeria, Dondu Ozmicco, from acting as a company director for six years after hiring two illegal workers. Ozmicco was also fined £20,000 by Immigration Enforcement in March 2021 which remained unpaid in liquidation.

The Insolvency Service has disqualified Neville Taylor, a director of over 400 companies, for nine years due to his participation in a subterfuge formulated to sabotage the insolvency system. Taylor received £266,914 from Atherton Corporate (UK) Ltd to act as the sole director of 12 insolvent companies, where he neglected to perform his duties has director and failed to reconcile the companies' state of affairs, leading to £7.6m in unaccounted assets.

The Insolvency Service has disqualified Mohammed Miah, the commercial director of an Indian restaurant, iNaga, from acting as a company director for six years after employing two illegal workers who did not have the right to work in the UK, breaching immigration legislation. The company was fined £20,000 and subsequently entered into liquidation in June 2023, despite the penalty being unsettled and liabilities exceeding £75,000. The disqualification, effective from 17 September 2024, prohibits Miah from involvement in company promotion, formation, or management until September 2030.

The Insolvency Service has imposed a seven-year directorship ban on Ali Avlik, the owner of a former Turkish restaurant in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, for employing three illegal workers. The disqualification, which commenced on 26 November 2024, follows an Immigration Enforcement visit in 2022 that uncovered the illegal employees at Avlik's restaurant and imposed a £45,000 fine for immigration breaches that remain outstanding.

The Insolvency Service has disqualified Masoom Khan, the manager of an Indian restaurant in Herefordshire, from acting as a company director for five years after employing two illegal workers.

The Insolvency Service has banned the owner of an Indian restaurant, Ikbal Hussain, from acting as a company director for seven years after employing three illegal workers without conducting right-to-work checks. Hussain is prevented from becoming involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company, without the permission of the court until 2031.

The Insolvency Service has called for people who think they might be owed money by travel agency, Zulu Travel Services Ltd, to come forward after it was wound up following an investigation by the Insolvency Service into its trading practices. Investigators found it was being run by a disqualified director and had failed to keep company accounts or pay bills for services it had used.