In this month's roundup of cases and disqualifications, HMRC smashes £108m fake eco-investment scam, a director fakes his death to avoid 14-year disqualification and a fake spy gets caught up in a £1.6m VAT fraud
Director fakes death to avoid 14-year disqualification
A director who ran a sham TV company, which he claimed had a turnover of £4.7bn, got a friend to claim he had died, to avoid disqualification for dishonest attempts to obtain credit via a limited company.
Bradley Silver, also known as Bradley Silva, has been disqualified for 14 years. He was sole director of 24/7 London, a sham company wound up by the Insolvency Service in September 2016. Silver’s company contacted production companies with forged documents claiming it had worked on top TV shows including The X-Factor.
Silver filed fictitious accounts for 24/7 London, claiming turnover of £4.7bn and assets of £2.4bn, stated to have been audited by Deloitte.
