Couldn’t happen to a nicer couple

[northernladuk]

Is it not more likely though, that neither of them will have any assets tied to them and easily freezable ?

Yeah you would expect that to be the case. All owned by some entity deep in the mire of this business/tax dealings.

[SueEllen]

Yeah you would expect that to be the case. All owned by some entity deep in the mire of this business/tax dealings.

Seems to be the case as their house is owned by a company.

https://www.ft.com/content/5a83c1ae-...f-943537687210


A townhouse in London’s Belgravia owned by a company linked to the husband of Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone is on sale for £25mn, weeks after the lingerie tycoon admitted lying over her role regarding a medical equipment company that won more than £200mn of UK state contracts during the pandemic.

The six-bedroom home in one of London’s most expensive residential neighbourhoods is owned by an Isle of Man company that is part of the Knox group of companies, founded and chaired by Mone’s husband, Douglas Barrowman. The property at 4 Chester Square was acquired in late 2020 for £9.25mn.

Knox group told the Financial Times in December 2022 that it was purchased as an investment and that the company planned to sell the house after a refurbishment. Knox said at the time the acquisition was funded “using group internal resources and external banking facilities”.


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The registered owner of the Chester Square house is Chester Ventures, according to UK land records. Chester Ventures’ beneficial owner is identified in Companies House records as Knox House Trustees (UK) Limited.

Knox Group and Mone did not reply to requests for comment.

[SueEllen]

Don't think The Guardian like her....

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-to-reputation

Michelle Mone’s former lawyer is demanding that she apologise and make a donation to a charity for allegedly inflicting “severe and irreparable damage” to his reputation by suggesting he had advised her to tell lies.

[Andy2022]

Copy of the Restraining Order - bit dull but links things together

https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.ne...65e82e7e99.pdf

[eek]

Not 100% sure which thread was the best one to post this on so this one will do

https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/03/04/..._shadow_fraud/

Dan Neidle has evidence that MR Barrowman committed fraud by misrepresenting which company workers were working through paperwork to agency went from the UK company, but employer and (probably) money going direct to the Isle of Mann.

[northernladuk]

All very exciting this but I wish they'd get on with it. So much work to uncover all this has lead to so much evidence, so drop the hammer and lets get all the legal processes possible started. It's hard to imagine, however clever and slimy he is, he's got a hope of winning anything.

[northernladuk]

Well he's got away with his shennagans in Spain it appears.. God knows how.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sion-scam.html

And although they described the sum paid to Axis as 'disproportionate' given the factory purchase cost and described the operation as 'strange' and 'hardly compatible' with B3 Cable's interests, they said that did not necessarily imply any criminal wrongdoing.

They added: 'The prosecution accusation was based specifically on the non-existence of services. The possibility of the criminal consideration of an excessive or disproportionate payment hasn't been touched on.'

Of the alleged crime against the Spanish Treasury they said that although the tax relief claimed could be considered very high, it was 'acceptable.'

They also ruled it hadn't been proved money paid to Axis had ended up in an offshore account as prosecutors alleged.

So it appears all smoke and mirrors and skirting the line over which he'll get nailed which I can't help think will happen time and time again in his forthcoming cases. I've a feeling we will see him get away with a ton more stuff with this type of statement at the end.