The Insolvency Service has reported the disqualification of the former director of Aldridge Construction Engineering Ltd, Kulbarg Singh, for six years after £1.5m worth of company assets were sold for just over £465,000 in April 2021 to Ace Earth Solutions Ltd, a separate company also under his control. The sale included seven historic cars valued at £101,500, which were sold for £1. The disqualification undertaking, accepted by the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, commenced on 24 July 2025. It prohibits Singh from being involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company without the permission of the court and bans him from directing any company until 2031.

A Yorkshire waste operator, Jonathan Waldron, has been sentenced after acting as a company director while subject to an active bankruptcy order. Waldron appeared at York Crown Court on 21 January 2026, where he received a 16-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, must complete 200 hours of unpaid work, pay £1,000 in costs, and has been disqualified from acting as a company director for five years.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Zahid Afzal, director of Phone Bits Ltd and Phones Onn Ltd, received a two-year suspended sentence for fraudulently obtaining £150,000 in coronavirus bounce back loans (BBL). Afzal had already received legitimate loans totalling £52,500 when he applied for three additional £50,000 loans between May and November 2020. The Insolvency Service is pursuing recovery of the fraudulently obtained funds under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Afzal was charged under the Fraud Act 2006 after transferring the majority of the fraudulent loans to personal accounts.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Mario Huiu, former director of Incentive Services Limited, has received a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, after failing to maintain proper accounting records. Huiu neglected to explain £498,480 in transfers from company accounts between May and June 2020, verify £261,960 in cash receipts, or account for the company's failure with £162,482 in debts. The order was made under the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) and Insolvency Act 1986 (IA 1986). Huiu had previously been disqualified as a company director for six years in November 2021 following initial investigations into his conduct at the company.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Robert Kurzawa received a 12-week suspended prison sentence on 5 September 2025 for breaching a director disqualification order. Kurzawa, who was initially banned in 2017 after his first company accumulated £195,000 in tax debts, continued to manage a second company which subsequently failed with £159,000 in liabilities. The Luton Crown Court has imposed a further four-year directorship ban on Kurzawa while the Insolvency Service is pursuing confiscation proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Gary Wright, a former St Helens pub owner, received a two-year suspended prison sentence for failing to disclose his bankruptcy status when applying for a £25,000 bounce back loan (BBL) in June 2020. Wright applied for the BBL despite the closure of his pub during September 2019 and his bankruptcy being declared in February 2020. The court ordered Wright to complete 150 hours of unpaid work and pay £1,500 in costs. The loan has been repaid in full and Wright remains an undischarged bankrupt, having been legally required to declare this status when seeking credit exceeding £500.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Florin-Petrica Bodale, a Harrow-based building contractor, has received a 13-month suspended prison sentence for fraudulently obtaining a £50,000 bounce back loan (BBL) . Bodale falsely claimed his business turnover was £240,000 when it was approximately £22,000, resulting in an exaggerated claim of £44,500. The sentence includes an 18-month suspension period and 250 hours of unpaid work. This criminal conviction follows a previous civil investigation that resulted in Bodale receiving a ten-year bankruptcy restriction and director disqualification in 2022.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Indian takeaway owner, Zaman Shaa, has been banned as a company director for two years after he fraudulently applied for a £30,000 coronavirus Bounce Back Loan (BBL). Shaa was sentenced to 36 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to pay £6,000 in costs.

The Insolvency Service has reported that London taxi driver, Hafiz Saeed Ahmad, has been handed 11 years of bankruptcy restrictions after falsely claiming two Bounce Back Loans (BBLs) totalling £100,000 for his taxi and delivery businesses.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Ricky Harrison was sentenced to three years and two months in prison and faces a ten-year director disqualification after fraudulently obtaining £200,000 in coronavirus bounce back loans (BBL). Harrison secured maximum-value loans for three dormant companies and overstated turnover for a fourth company when entitled to only £16,000 in total. The director used the funds for personal purposes, including £85,000 for vehicle purchase, contrary to scheme requirements. The prosecution followed the Insolvency Service's investigations into applications made across his four education support companies in 2020.

The Insolvency Service has reported that travel agents Felix Travels and Tours Limited (FTT) has been wound-up at the High Court after cancelling holidays at short-notice and not providing customers with the services they paid for. Around 300 customers are owed refunds totalling almost £600,000.

The Insolvency Service has reported that Save Consultants Ltd, a Manchester- based company, has been shut down in the public interest after investigations indicated that it was acting as an unlicensed insolvency practitioner.