In what might be some sort of shameful record, director Stephen Burke conned his way to no fewer than four Bounce Back Loans.
The Government scheme was designed to help businesses through the coronavirus lockdown by offering loans up to 25% of a company’s turnover, with a maximum of £50,000.
Burke was a director of four companies that used fake figures showing incomes ranging from £200,000 and £320,000, when the true highest turnover for any of them was a mere £3,400.