News - Bankrupt given eight-month prison sentence for perjury - employment status

fermi

http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=421439&NewsAreaID=2

The investigation showed that after being made bankrupt in December 2009 Mr ******, aged 58 of Ledbury, Herefordshire lied to the Official Receiver by claiming that he was unemployed when in fact he was working as a chauffeur.

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debtinfo

unfortunately you only ever get a few details in these cases, it would be interesting to know how it was discovered that he was working

NeverAgain_2

debtinfo wrote: »

unfortunately you only ever get a few details in these cases, it would be interesting to know how it was discovered that he was working

I expect he picked up the official receiver from a function.

ILW

Or one of his creditors spotted him.

Rupert_Bear

NeverAgain wrote: »

I expect he picked up the official receiver from a function.

Or if not through Paye perhaps. This type of scum makes honest bankrupts look dishonest.

Whirlee

You get a few more details here http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/9281746.Chauffeur____lied_over_earnings___/

I wondered whether people thought 8 months was a fair sentence?

NekoZombie

fermi wrote: »

http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=421439&NewsAreaID=2



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o.O

:eek::eek:

fermi

NekoZombie wrote: »

o.O

:eek::eek:

lol. Yes.

Unusual one or an extreme example, which is probably why it made the NDS. i.e. highlighted to make a public point.

Fibbing to the OR/courts, or not disclosing information where you have a legal duty to do so, can have very serious consequences.

Whirlee

I don't think people are charged with perjury very often. There is another offence of making a material omission in statements to the OR which is charged more often. So I think when the courts see it they take it very seriously.

Even so I feel like 8 months is quite high. There's no mention of him having previous convictions or that he was stashing cash away.

andyf1980

Whirlee wrote: »

I don't think people are charged with perjury very often. There is another offence of making a material omission in statements to the OR which is charged more often. So I think when the courts see it they take it very seriously.

Even so I feel like 8 months is quite high. There's no mention of him having previous convictions or that he was stashing cash away.

I think it's pretty implicit that he was stashing cash away. If he wasn't then why hide the fact that he was working?

I'm sure there's a degree of example making here.

debtinfo

well, depending on outgoings etc, you might expect an income like that to generate an IPA of about £500pm, so over 3 years that might be £18,000 that may have been put beyond the bankruptcy, compare that to other things, so for instance if you used fraud to obtain £18,000 of loans what would you get, or perhaps £18,000 of benefit fraud what would you get for that.

Just speculation, but just trying to compare it