Micasa WW Ltd, along with Remultex Ltd, have been wound up by the Excessive Courtroom within the public curiosity, and the Official Receiver has been appointed liquidator of the businesses.

An Insolvency Service investigation discovered that Micasa had seen round £1.three million move by way of its accounts from February 2019, when it began working, till December 2020.

The corporate had been recognized as probably concerned in a cryptocurrency rip-off, though the dearth of accounting information meant it was not attainable to confirm whether or not its enterprise was professional buying and selling exercise.

Investigators did establish that it had secured a £50,000 Bounce Again Mortgage (BBL), though there was additionally no proof that the corporate was eligible underneath the scheme guidelines.

Practically all of the BBL was transferred to Remultex Ltd, which seems to have began working in December 2019. Remultex additionally acquired its personal BBL of £30,000, though it was equally not attainable for investigators to substantiate that the corporate was entitled to the BBL. Along with the Bounce Again Mortgage funds acquired from Micasa, Remultex acquired funds from three different firms, totalling practically £250,000 by December 2020. Virtually all of this was withdrawn from the enterprise in money.

As with Micasa, there have been no accounting information to elucidate Remultex’s transactions.

Given the that each firms traded with an absence of business probity and had taken public cash to which they could not have been entitled, Decide Woodward sitting within the Excessive Courtroom in Manchester agreed that closing down the businesses was within the public curiosity.

As a part of their duties, the Official Receiver as Liquidator will search to get better and realise the property of the corporate to make returns to collectors.

David Hope, Chief Investigator on the Insolvency Service, stated:

These firms didn’t function in a clear style and failed to keep up correct accounting information.

There is no such thing as a proof they have been entitled to taxpayers’ cash by way of the Bounce Again Mortgage scheme, and it’s possible that Micasa was funnelling funds as a part of a cryptocurrency rip-off.

Notes to editors

Micasa WW Ltd, firm quantity 11673352.

Remultex Ltd, firm quantity 12284381.

All public enquiries regarding the affairs of the businesses needs to be made to: The Official Receiver, Public Curiosity Unit, 16th Ground, 1 Westfield Avenue, Stratford, London, E20 1HZ. Phone: 0300 678 0015 E-mail: piu.or@insolvency.gov.uk.

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