Jones Beckett

[crazyfrog]

Not heard anything at all from the liquidators for months now. I expect they are busy justifying offsetting any money they manage to reclaim from the JBA directors against their costs, so the companies who are genuinely out of pocket receive nothing.

Just another bunch of parasites feeding off other parasites.

Guess what? It cost them 39K to tell us there is no money left to pay us what's owed

[contractor79]

Guess what? It cost them 39K to tell us there is no money left to pay us what's owed

Did anyone else get a letter the other day saying there is an insolvency meeting where I think the liquidator will report back on the findings?

I found it hard to understand. Only two things I'm interested in (1) Getting my money back (2) that conman in jail

[darrenb]

May I say these events were part of the reason I emigrated to Germany. I emigrated because of disgust.

I was involved too, and I did finally get most of my money back through swift action. However, it was a close call, and I was by no means convinced that the "system works". I still do not see any evidence that most of the hard-working victims in this case ever received their dues or ever will.

Without genuine business regulation there IS no business. The City of London needs to wake up and realize what its fortunes are built on.

[SharePoint Assassin]

Cant belive they can get away with this. I bet they are doing the same thing at a new company, disgusting, avoid them like the plague

[PAH]

I bet they are doing the same thing at a new company, disgusting, avoid them like the plague

You're probably right, though general fear amongst website owners means we aren't easily able to 'out' these dodgy characters by way of a blacklist for fear of libel or abuse of the list by cretins.

So scum like this lot will continue to flout the lax business laws that allow them to 'do a runner', put on a phoenix costume, and resume business under a different name when their crap business skills land them unable to pay their dues.

[svb70]

So, time has passed and we have all moved on. I received a letter from liquidators today to attend another meeting. Phoned up to ask about the outcome of whether they concluded that the director acted fraudulently and was told a confidential letter will be sent to 'business innovation and skills' regarding their outcome.
Had a quick look, Broadgate is being wound up as no accounts have been filed. Beckett is now director at Capax Resource Management.

[SueEllen]

So, time has passed and we have all moved on. I received a letter from liquidators today to attend another meeting. Phoned up to ask about the outcome of whether they concluded that the director acted fraudulently and was told a confidential letter will be sent to 'business innovation and skills' regarding their outcome.
Had a quick look, Broadgate is being wound up as no accounts have been filed. Beckett is now director at Capax Resource Management.

Don't expect the BIS to do anything.

While liquidators in a few cases do ask for directors to be struck off the BIS don't listen.

[contractor79]

I have been told that the only way to get money from the directors is if they are found guilty of some kind of fraud from this then sue them personally, perhaps through small claims court. As we can't go after their new businesses. So please let us know if you hear of them in a court anytime soon. It's sad the liquidators aren't telling us their real findings here.

[crazyfrog]

So, time has passed and we have all moved on. I received a letter from liquidators today to attend another meeting. Phoned up to ask about the outcome of whether they concluded that the director acted fraudulently and was told a confidential letter will be sent to 'business innovation and skills' regarding their outcome.
Had a quick look, Broadgate is being wound up as no accounts have been filed. Beckett is now director at Capax Resource Management.

I also got the letter.

If you read it closely it turns out that Broadgate IT bought some of the assets of JBA. Which I think is a a bit rich considering Beckett was siphoning off the assets to Broadgate prior to JBA going t**s up

The 100k "loan" to the other directory looks like it will never be recovered

Any money the liquidators recover goes directly to paying the liquidator costs

This really does stink and there's nothing we can do about it

[masonryan]

I think the latest letter said the old liquidators had been removed, something to do with a high court decision, and that now a new set of liquidators are on board. Does anyone have the latest?