Insolvency Service get it wrong again over Solar Cloth Co

The UK Insolvency Service has looked at the dealings of the Director of The Solar Cloth Company and decided that they do not warrant any action. 

No that is not a joke. 

You may remember the SCC. It helped itself to loads of investors cash using false information about the founder and his previous antics. The story was well written up in The Times. It was a caste iron case of fraud - all helped out by the Crowdcube platform.

Now in letting this individual go, without any reprimand the Insolvency Service quotes Section 6 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 where in order to be disqualified, said director has to have acted in a way that makes him unfit to be a company director. Text below -

Dear Sir/Madam, 

The Solar Cloth Company Limited Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 I refer to previous correspondence in this matter and advise that as a result of the investigation undertaken, the Secretary of State does not propose to take disqualification proceedings against the directors of the above company. Such disqualification proceedings when brought are done so pursuant to Section 6 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986. 

Whilst this may not be currently relevant to you it might be helpful for the future if I advise you of the wording of that section. 

It says: (1) The court shall make a disqualification order against a person in any case where, on an application under this section, it is satisfied — (a) that he is or has been a director of a company which has at any time become insolvent (whether while he was a director or subsequently), and (b) that his conduct as a director of that company (either taken alone or taken together with his conduct as a director of any other company or companies) makes him unfit to be concerned in the management of a company”. 

Accordingly if, in the future, the Secretary of State should learn of any unfit conduct relating to this company it could be included in any disqualification proceedings brought in respect of this or any future company failure. 

Yours faithfully Naomi Fulford 

Well if this guy has not acted in such a way then we are not going to see any companies' directors disqualified ever again. Also, it seems unlikely the company will be able to oblige the Secretary of State in the final comment as it no longer exists! What a ridiculous outcome.

So just beware the presence yet again of one Perry Carroll or whichever name he chooses from his list. He'll be the one flying some amazing money spinning business and asking for your cash.

We wrote about him and SCC here

Clearly something needs to done about the 1986 Act - yet another piece of useless legislation that pre dates the mass use of the internet. Just WAKE UP will you please.