The Insolvency Service has reported that Tanveer Khan and Tasneem Khan have been disqualified as company directors for 13 years and ten years respectively, following a High Court hearing in Manchester on 12 February 2026. The disqualifications arise from the fabrication of a £9.8m NHS contract and the defrauding of investors of over £2.18m through Matz Medical Limited. The company entered administration in October 2022, with creditors facing an estimated shortfall of more than £40m. Tanveer Khan used forged documents, including fake NHS purchase orders, delivery notes and bank payment confirmations, to deceive lenders and investors between March and May 2022. This occurred despite the company having been suspended from NHS Supply Chain frameworks since December 2019. A separate £16.5m claim brought by the joint administrators against Tanveer Khan for breaching directors' duties remains ongoing. Both individuals are prohibited from forming, managing or promoting a company without court permission until March 2039 and March 2036 respectively.

The Insolvency Service has reported that restaurant owner, Belal Ahmed, has been banned as a company director for 12 years after making false statements to abuse the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme in August and September 2020. Ahmed had also fraudulently obtained a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan for the same restaurant in June 2020 by overstating turnover.

The Insolvency Service has reported that company director, Mohammed Ikram, fraudulently applied for and obtained goods totalling over £200,000 on credit which he never paid for. Ikram over-inflated the assets of the company to secure credit from suppliers. Ikram was jailed for two years and three months and banned as a company director for seven years.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Craig Smith, director of C.A.S. Property Maintenance (Midlands) Limited, has bee sentenced to two years and one month in prison at Wolverhampton Crown Court for fraud by false representation. Smith fraudulently obtained a £50,000 Covid bounce back loan (BBL) in August 2020 by claiming his annual turnover was £200,000 when it was £33,578. The 42-year-old from Dudley had pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by false representation at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 14 August 2025. Smith resigned as director in July 2021 without filing accounts for the company, which was dissolved in 2022.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Duncan Paul, director of CRDNN Limited, has been disqualified for eight years after his company made millions of unsolicited sales calls to homes and businesses with thousands of people complaining to the Information Commissioner’s Office. The company was fined £500,000 for contravening regulation 19 and 24 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 and went into liquidation in January 2021 with the fine unpaid. Paul's ban began on 2 May 2024.

The Insolvency Service has reported that the director of two companies which operated an unauthorised care home investment scheme, Robin Forster, has been banned from being a company director for 14 years. Investors lost more than £57m through the fund which the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is currently seeking to recover.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Haralambos Ioannou, director of Opti-Bond (GB) Ltd, received a 22-month suspended sentence at Southwark Crown Court on 7 October 2025 for fraudulently obtaining two Bounce Back Loans totalling £100,000. Ioannou applied for two separate £50,000 loans when companies were entitled to only one loan under the scheme, declaring different turnover figures of £216,000 and £236,000 for 2019. He used the second loan for personal purposes including £25,000 on gambling, £8,000 on crypto investments, £6,000 in cash withdrawals and £16,000 transferred to his then wife's account. The court also imposed a five-year company director disqualification and ordered £40,000 compensation plus 150 hours unpaid work. Opti-Bond (GB) Ltd entered liquidation in November 2021, with Ioannou failing to disclose the first loan to the liquidator as legally required.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Eugenijus Nalivaika, the sole director of Niki Contractors Ltd, was sentenced to 15 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, for failing to provide any explanation of purchases or deliver up-to-date company records. Investigations by the Insolvency Service found that the company spent more than £800,000 on 106 vehicles in a six-month period and was liquidated with liabilities of more than £2.5m. Nalivaika was also disqualified as a company director for seven years in January 2024 in separate civil proceedings brought by the Insolvency Service.

The Insolvency Service has reported that the director of Bebo Construction Limited, Adebayo Talabi, has received a two-year suspended sentence, an unpaid work order and a six-year disqualification from acting as a company director. Talabi pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud by false representation at Southwark Crown Court on 24 February 2026. An investigation by the Insolvency Service found that, between August and November 2020, Talabi applied for three separate coronavirus (COVID-19) Bounce Back Loans (BBLs) totalling £150,000. He overstated the company's turnover to between £200,000 and £220,000 to obtain the maximum £50,000 from each lender, despite the company being entitled to approximately £1,300. The investigation further found that the loan funds were transferred to personal accounts rather than used for the company's economic benefit, as required under the scheme. Talabi also falsely stated in the second and third loan applications that they were the company's first and only applications.

The Insolvency Service has disqualified two directors of Posh Windows UK Ltd for four years after investigations into breaches of privacy regulations. Mohammed Liaqat and Rubani Ghulam permitted their Stoke-based company to make 461,062 unsolicited marketing calls to Telephone Preference Service (TPS) registered numbers between August 2020 and April 2021. Previously, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) had imposed a £150,000 fine on the company in 2022, which remained outstanding when the company entered liquidation. The disqualification undertakings prevent both directors from involvement in company promotion, formation, or management without obtaining court permission.

The Insolvency Service has disqualified Jenna Lennon, director of Hope & Pride Limited, for seven years starting on 19 March 2025, following her failure to maintain and deliver adequate accounting records to the liquidator. The company entered liquidation in September 2023 with total liabilities of £327,923, including an estimated £319,423 in unpaid corporation tax to HMRC. The liquidator was unable to verify £1.17m in payments into the company's account and £1.13m in outgoing payments. The disqualification prevents Lennon from being involved in company promotion, formation or management without the court's permission.

The Insolvency Service has reported the disqualification of David Smith, former director of FB Realisations Limited (previously Balgownie Limited), from acting as a company director for 11 years following investigations into VAT fraud. Smith admitted to submitting false VAT returns between 2019–2022, resulting in £1.57m of undeclared VAT to HMRC. The Scottish machinery firm entered administration in March 2024 owing £3.16m to creditors. The disqualification undertaking commenced on 21 July 2025 and bans Smith from involvement in company promotion, formation, or management without permission from the court.