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Sep 3, 2025 Investigations

Herran Finance – another fake bank at Companies House

Every Monday morning, we publish an updated list of every PLC in the UK that has failed to file its accounts on time. Sometimes a company is on the list because of a Companies House delay/error. More often, it’s because the company is troubled, bust, or incompetent. And occasionally it reveals an active fraud. Despite […]
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Jul 4, 2025 Analysis

Who’s behind the fake banks on Companies House?

One man has set up a series of fake banks on Companies House – with real bank names, no checks, and zero consequences. When he’s caught, he does it again. And he’s been facilitated by a legitimate incorporation agent that, for reasons we don’t understand, incorporated an obviously fraudulent fake bank for him. This report […]
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May 17, 2025 Investigations

UK companies with no UK director are 17× more likely to show signs of fraud

A new analysis by Tax Policy Associates shows that 900,000 UK companies have no UK directors – all their directors live abroad. This is permitted by current UK company law – but our analysis finds that these companies are seventeen times more likely to show signs of fraud than companies with at least one UK […]
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Mar 24, 2025 Analysis

How do promoters get rich from selling hopeless tax avoidance schemes?

OneE made £10 million selling doomed R&D tax schemes – leaving investors with nothing and taxpayers footing the bill. Here’s how they did it, and here’s how we would change the law to end the tax avoidance industry for good. The scheme involved an attempt to use research and development tax relief to generate tax […]
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Feb 8, 2025 Investigations

Who is Michail Roerich, and why did he build the world’s most convincing fake companies?

A mining giant claiming £4bn in revenue, certified by a fake auditor on 128 pages of meticulously detailed fake accounts. A bank with a login page that can’t log anyone in. A trust holding $327bn in Tsarist gold that never existed. Even endorsements from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Nadhim Zahawi, and Baroness Mone […]
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Feb 2, 2025 Investigations

Two clicks to uncover fake companies on Companies House

We’ve been reporting on the shockingly brazen accounting frauds that slip through Companies House. Our new web-based fraud-finding tool takes just a few clicks to expose suspicious companies. We hope it’s useful to everyone interested in uncovering fraud, and helps illustrate how easy it would be for Companies House to do a better job of […]
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Feb 1, 2025 Investigations

How criminals are setting up fake banks on Companies House

Anyone can set up a company on Companies House, and say it’s a bank. We’ve written an automated tool that smokes them out. In three minutes, it identified sixteen “banks” with fake assets. Today we’re publishing our analysis of the sixteen fake banks, together with full instructions on how to use our tool to find […]
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Jan 31, 2025 Investigations

Companies House failed to spot a £100 trillion fake company

We’ve created an automated search tool that crawls Companies House data to find companies with fraudulent accounts. It’s found hundreds of dubious companies, the worst of which claims £100 trillion of assets. Our findings suggest that Companies House is asleep at the wheel. But they also show that it would be straightforward to clean things […]
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Jan 25, 2025 Investigations

The £58bn company that doesn’t exist

Avis Capital Limited is one of the largest companies in the UK. It says it was spun out from Avis (the car hire company), is FCA-regulated and has £58bn of net assets. It promises investors a 31% return. But all of this is a lie. Avis Capital’s accounts are a work of fiction. It’s completely […]

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