An Instagram influencer has been banned from being a director over claims a government Covid loan was misused. Yvonne McCuaig put her call centre firm into liquidation after it was given a huge fine for hassling householders with half a million unwanted phone calls.
But now an investigation has revealed questions over the use of a £30,000 Covid loan and why she transferred £180,000 to herself before her company was shut down. The Sunday Mail previously unmasked McCuaig, 43, a cold-calling queen, when her firm, Dial a Deal Scotland Ltd, was fined £150,000 by Information Commissioners’ Office.
The company plagued people with nuisance calls and set up a series of fake trading names to try to sell government green schemes which were found to be non-existent. It also used questionable tactics such as spoof numbers so they couldn’t be traced back to their HQ in an industrial estate in the east end of Glasgow.
