A pizza company boss who fraudulently secured £150,000 in Covid loans before company funds were spent on gambling and children’s toys has been jailed. Matthew Temple obtained three £50,000 Bounce Back Loans for Pizza Cottage (Whitley Bay) Limited, which traded as Pizza Cottage on East Parade in Whitley Bay. Temple, known as Mehdi Ghaneh-Keisami when the…
Read moreTwo men who carried out a £3 million insolvency fraud and money laundering scheme have been sentenced. Disqualified director Tariq Sarwar knew his company was in financial difficulty and likely to be wound up when he sold commercial property in Salford – his company’s only substantial asset – for more than £5 million. Sarwar fraudulently…
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