Darren Upton goes down for 6 years

[AtW]

Accountant swindled clients out of tax money to finance luxuries - Main Section - Yorkshire Post

Fill yer boots!

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[Pondlife]

****!

You're not still waiting for him to do your self assessment, are you?

[Zippy]

You might want to consider banning him Admin.

From the members directory:
Darren@UptonAccountants More time posting than coding Darren@UptonAccountants is mostly harmless

PS sorry for those affected

[MarillionFan]

You might want to consider banning him Admin.

From the members directory:
Darren@UptonAccountants More time posting than coding Darren@UptonAccountants is mostly harmless

PS sorry for those affected

Why ban him? He ain't going to be using it for a while.

[LostInSpace]

Can we let this happen again?

I wouldn't want any father to be denied access to his baby, but on reading that, and having recently got a bill due to Upton's mismanagement from 5 years ago.....screw him.

I am usually an understanding chap myself but Darren could have sorted this out years ago by doing the decent thing and paying back the FSA, but no, he decided to try and bankrupt hundreds of others to live out a fantasy.

I wish no ill feeling to his family, but to be brutally honest my thoughts are for those (like myself) still struggling to keep their businesses going and worse those that have been forced out of business - their families and employees have suffered and had not had the benefit of flash cars and nice houses.

What galls me most is that this happened why do the 'professional bodies' that Darren was a member of not protect against this? If he was a solicitor that cost us this money we would have some recourse but accountants - no. Most of the payments were made using on line transactions which do not validate account names - had the amounts been paid by crossed cheque or in person - the transactions would have been automatically questioned / blocked? And finally of course 'professional indemnity insurance' does not cover outright fraud.

These loopholes must be tightened up before this happens again...

[Pondlife]

<<Placeholder for now.>>

Welcome to our newest member DarrenUptonsCellmate

[eek]

Why ban him? He ain't going to be using it for a while.

+1 mind you we need to solve that harmless rating.

Click here pick a comment and -ve him.

[DimPrawn]

Why ban him? He ain't going to be using it for a while.

Hasn't stopped me posting.

[NotAllThere]

...Where's the old lag smilie?

...Can you write off the £13k as a loss on this year's accounts so at least you have less CT to pay this year?

Have you considered asking your accountant?

...er...

[Bagpuss]

In the telegraph now..

Married accountant 'stole from clients to buy Ann Summers lingerie for mistress' - Telegraph