£1.4 million forfeited from fraudster linked to Herts

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More than £1.4 million has been forfeited from a convicted fraudster linked to the area.

St Albans Magistrates’ Court ordered Kevin Morris, 63, to hand over £1,424,357 from four accounts he had used to launder money for his own personal gain, at a hearing on October 9.from setting up or managing a company for 15 years after an Insolvency Service investigation into him and a woman from Bushey.

It was established that Morris, of Wolverton Road, Stanmore, had paid four people for use of their bank accounts and used them to commit payroll fraud. As specialist investigators delved further, the unit described, they uncovered a network of companies which were all ultimately traced back to an unlicensed insolvency agency called Business Debt Gone, of which Morris is the sole proprietor.Paul Fitzsimmons, from ERSOU, said: “This was a hugely complex investigation, which our specialist investigators have worked on tirelessly over nearly four years.

 

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