Serious Fraud Office gets involved in Company Law Compliance ... about time too!

 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfo-guidance-on-evaluating-a-corporate-compliance-programme/sfo-guidance-on-evaluating-a-corporate-compliance-programme

Perhaps the SFO knew what depths of depravity were being plumbed by Octopus Capital Group and Howard Kennedy llp before the most bizarre application was made to the High Court to have hearings held in private and that no record of the judgment ever be made public to cover-up the most appalling compliance failures by all 5 (yes five) of the Octopus VCT funds (see https://otv2go.blogspot.com/)

Until the hearing I suggest it is unsafe, certainly unwise, for anyone to invest any money with Octopus - you need to "follow the money" all the way to the home of "the Deponent" - a good title for John Grisham's next book! https://meridianbvi.com/waters-edge-building/

Have you read The Gulag Archipelago? If not you should do so, and you will see exactly what what Howard Kennedy is trying to get the High Court to do.

Anyone else watch the excellent BBC programmes on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe

The similarities between the portrayal of the "Court" in Tehran and what Howard Kennedy are trying to make the English High Court do are striking.

Is there any hope for the UK? Certainly not until Howard Kennedy llp are banned from ever again offering legal services or acting as Sponsor and/or Solicitors and Legal Advisers to more than 90% of the VCTs.

Further reading if you really want to know why there is Panic in Holborn and London Bridge:

s6 Data Protection Act 1998 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/6

and UKGDPR https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/679/contents

Anyone awake at the UK's Institutes of Chartered Accountants?

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