The company wanting to buy and revive the Britishvolt project in Northumberland has had its Australian offices raided by police, reports say.
An investigation into alleged tax fraud has seen the offices of Scale Facilitation and SaniteX raided. Scale Facilitation is the parent company of Recharge Industries, which has been named as the preferred bidder for Britishvolt after its collapse earlier this year.
Recharge - which denies any wrongdoing - wants to revive the Britishvolt scheme to build a battery gigafactory at Cambois, near Blyth, and create up to 3,000 jobs. But despite the deal being announced in February, it has not yet completed.
