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  Regional Individual Insolvency Statistics 2000 to 2011

  16 May 2012

  Insolvency Statistics

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  Insolvency Statistics Published - First Quarter 2012

  4 May 2012

  Insolvency Statistics

• Payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling claims and bankruptcy

  10 Apr 2012

  Information for individuals who may have been mis-sold payment protection insurance but have yet to make a claim.

• Leeds businessman to pay back £770,000 and disqualified as a director

  22 May 2012

  Kevin Victor Sharp, a Leeds-based businessman and shadow director, has been ordered to pay £776,866 following a confiscation hearing on 9 May 2012 at Leeds Crown Court. Mr Sharp, who had previously been subject to a four year disqualification undertaking not to act as a company director, was also disqualified from being a company director for a further period of four years.

• LUXEMBOURG ARM OF TAX UMBRELLA SCHEME WOUND UP

  17 May 2012

  A Luxembourg company Zigmund Mather S.a.r.l. which had sourced clients for the “Sunday Solutions Scheme”, a tax scheme for the self-employed, has been ordered into liquidation in the High Court on grounds of public interest following an investigation by Company Investigations of The Insolvency Service.

• Leamington Spa online recruitment companies now offline

  17 May 2012

  Four Leamington Spa-based recruitment companies, Online Recruiter Ltd, Financial Times Accounts Ltd, First Star Recruitment Limited and Working Solutions Websites Direct Limited, have been ordered into liquidation in the High Court on grounds of public interest following an investigation by Company Investigations of The Insolvency Service.