The Latest Breaking News from Companies House

Revealed: British businessman made millions from firm behind UK arm of ‘Kremlin propaganda’ TV channel

Exclusive: Christopher Wood earned more than £2m from Russia Today TV UK Ltd in three years, according to analysis of Companies House records

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2022

Mike Ashley's Frasers Group paid just £1 for Studio, records show

Online giant owed £80m and could not afford staff wages when it went under last month, administrators tell Companies House

Chronicle Live · Mar 22, 2022

Tory MP and TV host Dehenna Davison may face £5,000 fine for breaking business rules

Presenter of GB News show The Political Correction and Red Wall Tory MP Dehenna Davison's firm was struck off the official Companies House register after failing to respond to warnings

Daily Mirror · Mar 19, 2022

Register of offshore owners of UK properties full of loopholes, say experts

Long-delayed and apparently feeble enforcement measures will fail to tackle corruption, it is predicted

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2022

‘It’s about bloody time’: UK finally moves to block Russia’s ‘dirty money’

Analysis: against the backdrop of the invasion of Ukraine, Kwasi Kwarteng announces clean-up measures

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2022

Truss warns of ‘some economic hardship’ as she gives more detail of Russian sanctions – as it happened

Truss says officials ‘working through the night’ to draw up sanctions against oligarchs; Kwasi Kwarteng in Commons on economic crime bill

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2022

Whatever weapons we have against Russian dirty money, Companies House ain't one of them

Businesses are incorporated in the UK with blatantly false details, like the one claiming to have more share capital that the entire world's economic worth

Daily Mirror · Feb 24, 2022

Companies House failed to probe bosses with names like 'Adolf Tooth Fairy Hitler'

Sheffield University accounting professor and Labour peer Prem Sikka says the UK business registrar’s fails to do any background checks on weird names

Daily Mirror · Feb 19, 2022

Plymouth's Eliot Design & Build leaves debts of nearly £4m after going bust

Construction firm ceased trading in late 2020 but scale of creditor claims is now becoming evident with most unlikely to receive cash

Birmingham Post · Feb 17, 2022

Council paid millions of pounds to well known brothers' network

A Liverpool council spokesman said: "We are reviewing the figures."

Liverpool Echo · Feb 6, 2022