Tag: Graham Barrow

A Scammer’s Dream: The Chronic Uselessness Of The UK Companies House!

FinTelegram Charlene Lensburg - September 8, 2022

Scammers love UK companies. We know that. This nice little house in South London and another house around the corner have been used as the registered office for some 100 Chinese-controlled companies formed over just the past couple of weeks, Andrew Penman, an investigative Mirror journalist, and Companies House investigator Graham Barrow disclosed. The woman living there says that she knows nothing about them. According to Mirror, this is further proof of the "chronic uselessness" of the UK Companies House.

The Chinese Crypto Invasion in the UK?

Cryptonomics tamir - February 17, 2022

In September 2021, the People's Bank of China declared virtual currency-related business activities as illegal financial activities and warned that it seriously endangers the safety of people's assets. China's government banned crypto trading and mining in one of the world's most remarkable crackdowns on crypto. In parallel with the Chinese crypto ban, the number of companies being set up by Chinese in the UK exploded, as a statistic by Graham Barrow shows.

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