Police investigating potential tax fraud have raided the Australian offices of the company wanting to buy and revive the Britishvolt project in Northumberland.
The offices of Scale Facilitation - parent company of new Britishvolt owner Recharge Industries - have been raided. Recharge wants to revive the Britishvolt scheme to build a battery gigafactory at Cambois, near Blyth, and create up to 3,000 jobs, though the deal announced in February it has not yet completed.
It is hoped that the gigafactory scheme would create thousands of jobs in a disadvantaged area of the North East, as well as helping the UK’s net zero ambitious.
