Nural Miah, 40, a non-solicitor and former owner of Kingly Solicitors of Berkeley Square, London, has been fined £3,984,440, and told to pay costs of £41,670 after the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) shut his law firm down in 2020 ‘following serious concerns about the misuse of client funds’.

Miah was not a practising solicitor but was listed as a director of the firm, which had 15 branches, and was set up in 2016, originally as RH Legal (Bristol) Limited, until it was renamed Kingly Solicitors in 2019.

The SRA investigation identified 310 ‘improper transfers’ directly from client accounts to companies linked to Miah.

Miah used these funds to make purchases that were unrelated to the business, including luxury cars, and to make loan repayments. The SRA uncovered forged statements used to conceal the transactions.