11,500 UK companies struck off Companies House register after crackdown

[John M]

11,500 UK companies struck off Companies House register after crackdown​

Thousands of UK companies have been removed from the Companies House register over the last year, following a crackdown coordinated by the National Economic Crime Centre.

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov...-off-companies-house-register-after-crackdown

 

[Martin Everson]

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Officers visited eleven addresses where 30 high risk trust and company service providers operated. They identified that no real business activity was taking place, and that company formation agents had failed to comply with relevant requirements under the Companies Act.

In one example, a company registered between 4,000 and 5,000 businesses at an address in London. The businesses, however, were based in other parts of the UK and, in some cases, overseas.

As a result of the multi-agency effort, key individuals involved in company formation have been barred from making further registrations, criminal referrals have been made to the Insolvency Service, three high risk trust and company service providers are to be closed, with a further 27 facing enforcement action, and significant criminal property has been identified for law enforcement civil recovery action.

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Why is this a problem all of sudden I wonder......lol.

P.S Would love to know which providers were affected

 

[cherry]

The most practical discussion we can have about this, is where their OpSec failed, so we can stay ahead of the filth.