The money was not used for the business but for personal use, and there were no financial records available to verify the claimed turnover figures, but two separate banks still paid out the loans.

James Ireri from Surrey has been banned for seven years after abusing two different Covid loan schemes during the pandemic.

Ireri was the director of Safi Care Ltd, which traded as a recruitment business from Surrey, supplying staff to care homes, from its incorporation in February 2015 until it went into liquidation in August 2021. The company had first traded as Safi Services Ltd until March 2016.