Darren Upton goes down for 6 years

[SimonMac]

Anyone else seen Darrens linked in page.



Not half taking a break.

[EternalOptimist]

They dont like accountants in jail. I was watching this documentary about one, and 'the sisters' used to hold him down and bum him up. He only escaped in the end by chiselling his way out with a tiny rock hammer.
Does anyone know if 'Uppers' is a chiseller ?

[Sysman]

If I was going to steal close to a million quid to shack up with some bird, it would not be with her.

WMMS!

In spades! Looks as hard as nails to me. I know one man's meat is another's poison and all that, but that look turns me right off, and she's got a bit of a scowl in other photos too.

[Pondlife]

If you search for her full name in google.co.uk images you now get at least 3 CUK avatars.

Congrats to Faq, SB and Admin.

[norrahe]

They dont like accountants in jail. I was watching this documentary about one, and 'the sisters' used to hold him down and bum him up. He only escaped in the end by chiselling his way out with a tiny rock hammer.
Does anyone know if 'Uppers' is a chiseller ?

Is there also a biography ghost written by Stephen King?

[sbakoola]

What a mid-life crisis that was!

Maserati, mistress, toy railway set, he had it all!

[richy]

Rest of the Upton cabal?

Anyone heard what happened to the other officials caught up in the Upton mess?

Did his wife Tina also get struck off/blacklisted by professional body? Also any other officials at the firm involved?

Has his professional accountancy body offered any apology for their regulatory failings? Or offered to reimbursable those affected clients, and HMRC?

I suppose the best option for clients may be to claim on his P.I. Policy. must be up to 1M covered on that policy. Enough for everyone he affected..

cheers

[Underscore Pt2]

I got stung the same way as others...do you know the bank account he created was actually called HMRC. No how the feck can Barclays allow someone to create a bank account called that. I was in the middle of a messy divorce when all this happened, and Upton took full advantage. Im hoping that HMRC will still be pragmatic about this.
I hope someone rips him a new a$$ole in prison.

[philip@wellwoodhoyle]

Anyone heard what happened to the other officials caught up in the Upton mess?

Did his wife Tina also get struck off/blacklisted by professional body? Also any other officials at the firm involved?

Has his professional accountancy body offered any apology for their regulatory failings? Or offered to reimbursable those affected clients, and HMRC?

I suppose the best option for clients may be to claim on his P.I. Policy. must be up to 1M covered on that policy. Enough for everyone he affected..

cheers

I don't think that Tina was ever a member of a professional body. Anyway, Darren had been struck of by the ACCA for other practising regulation breaches. Note that neither Upton Accountants nor Freedom Accountants showed the word "chartered" on their websites last year. Both companies are simply unregulated accountancy firms with no affiliation to a professional body.

PII probably wouldn't pay out because it's theft/fraud and not negligence or incompetence.

Even if he had still been a member of an accountancy body, their only sanction is to fine him or expel him from membership. They have no power to order compensation to be paid to clients.

As for regulatory failings - crazily enough, the accountancy bodies don't "regulate" the accountant's affairs with their clients - they don't do file reviews etc. Their main role is simply to ensure adherence with the rules of the professional body. An accountancy regulatory body would never go out looking for theft/fraud as it's not within their remit.

Not checked recently, but at one time, the main reason for striking off by the ICAEW (Chartered accountants) was not paying the annual subscription. That say's it all really.

At the end of the day, "accountancy" within the UK has no regulation. Literally anyone can call themselves an accountant or run an accountancy practice, qualifications or experience irrelevant. Obviously it's better to use a firm that's regulated by an accountancy body because then there's at least PII insurance, some degree of ongoing training/development to keep up to date, and the threat of losing their "chartered" status if they screw up badly, but the client is still on their own relying on their own legal action to get recompense if things go wrong, like in this case.

[Bunk]

They dont like accountants in jail. I was watching this documentary about one, and 'the sisters' used to hold him down and bum him up. He only escaped in the end by chiselling his way out with a tiny rock hammer.
Does anyone know if 'Uppers' is a chiseller ?

Is there also a biography ghost written by Stephen King?

Let me guess, he was mates with a guy who looked like Morgan Freeman? I think I've seen that 'documentary'