Councillors representing the area around the proposed site for a battery producing gigafactory have voiced concerns after the company looking to revive the project had its offices raided by police in Australia.
Scale Facilitation is the parent company of Recharge Industries, which has been identified as the preferred bidder for Britishvolt after its collapse earlier this year - but has yet to pay for the prospective plant site at Cambois near Blyth.
An investigation into alleged tax fraud has seen the offices of Scale Facilitation and SaniteX raided by authorities in Australia on Friday. It has been reported that staff wages at the firm’s Australian offices went unpaid for two weeks. Payments are now understood to have been met.
