Up to £40million of furlough cash was paid in a single month to a set of companies that appear to have no staff.
The four British firms, set up by an Indian entrepreneur, each claimed between £5million and £10million in May this year.
They were founded by Rajanish Garibe, 44, an elusive businessman whose firms’ ‘Europe corporate headquarters’ turned out to be a virtual mailbox in east London.
Whoops!! Just as we all said would happen when the Treasury taps were turned on with no way of checking whose bucket was collecting the outflow, eh?
The Treasury paid out the sums from its Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to his companies despite their shoddy or non-existent websites and no evidence of any actual staff.
Well, how could they have known? I mean, really, these fraudsters are so sophis...
The website of Domain Corporation Ltd – supposedly a tech consultancy – is so amateur that it contains dummy text. The three other firms – Domain Foundation, Domain International School and Domain Research Hospital – do not even seem to have websites.
Oh. And it's just a drop in the ocean:
The Treasury says the furlough scheme has been abused and there are 23,000 ongoing inquiries into ‘incorrect’ payments.
*gulp*
Last night, HMRC said it could not comment on ongoing cases, but added: ‘We are taking tough action to tackle fraudulent and criminal behaviour.’
Anyone think we'll ever see a penny of that £40m..?
Just like the Grenfell Tower false claimants.....they will have one thing in common.
ReplyDeleteJaded
Just contact my brother. He specialises in clawing back money from fraudulant claimers of government grants.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw this the other day I just knew it would be a sub-continental. Saw the name. Vindication.
ReplyDeleteAlmost as easy as pillaging plod, plundering public coffers with their all-too-frequent compensation claims.
ReplyDelete"I'm From The Government And I'm Here To Help..."
ReplyDeleteThe most frightening words in the English language according to Ronald Reagan.
We had a similar issue with COVID relief funds here in Canada. A 'diverse' family with hubby in charge of the IT system that was used for application and distribution relief funds, opened some 400 bank accounts and transferred roughly $11M CDN. Allegedly of course, but in a statement the minor defendants claim complete ignorance of the scheme and the main defendant claims that the government should have instituted more stringent safeguards. Money has disappeared in a series of property purchases. Naturally, this is still under investigation and (in a famous Canadian judicial tradition) 'no criminal charges have been announced'.
ReplyDelete"...they will have one thing in common."
ReplyDeleteSpot on!
"He specialises in clawing back money from fraudulant claimers of government grants."
Does he use a Black & Decker..?
"Vindication"
Was there ever any doubt?
"The most frightening words in the English language according to Ronald Reagan."
He wasn't wrong either, was he?
"...and the main defendant claims that the government should have instituted more stringent safeguards."
What's the French-Canadian for 'chutzpah'..?