{"id":2685,"date":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hebblethwaites.wpengine.com\/index.php\/attempts-to-defraud-a-liquidator-punished-by-courts\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"attempts-to-defraud-a-liquidator-punished-by-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/attempts-to-defraud-a-liquidator-punished-by-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempts to defraud a liquidator punished by courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span>A court order appointing a Provisional Liquidator was made by the High Court in March 2014 against Parkwell Investments Ltd, based in Wilmslow, Cheshire. The order removed the company&rsquo;s officers and appointed a Provisional Liquidator in their place to protect the company&rsquo;s remaining assets. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>The company&rsquo;s officers then deliberately and knowingly acted in contempt of court by transferring &pound;450,000 out of the reach of the Provisional Liquidator. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>The funds are now very unlikely to be recovered, a point which presiding Judge Mr Justice Norris took into consideration when sentencing. He said the company officers&rsquo; actions &ldquo;were an affront to the rule of law and order&rdquo;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>Amran Munir, Ali Sami Farooq, and Saif Chaudhry were each sentenced to six months&rsquo; imprisonment, of which three months is to be served in prison before being granted unconditional release. Unusually, the prison sentence was given in civil, rather than criminal, proceedings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>The individuals initially defended their actions but at the eleventh hour admitted to breaches of the court&rsquo;s order. <\/span><\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court order appointing a Provisional Liquidator was made by the High Court in March 2014 against Parkwell Investments Ltd, based in Wilmslow, Cheshire. The order removed the company&rsquo;s officers and appointed a Provisional Liquidator in their place to protect the company&rsquo;s remaining assets. The company&rsquo;s officers then deliberately and knowingly acted in contempt of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}