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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Financier Lex Greensill banned from running UK companies for nine years

Lex Greensill  looks at the camera as he leaves court
Lex Greensill leaves court after a hearing last year. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

The disgraced former financier Lex Greensill has been banned from running a UK company for nine years after he was judged to be unfit because of the 2021 collapse of his £1.6bn supply chain invoicing firm.

The government’s Insolvency Service said on Thursday that Greensill had signed a disqualification undertaking, bringing the case to an end before a six-week trial was due to begin on 8 June.

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