Seven-year ban for cleaning director who used Atherton scheme and transferred almost £200,000 to new company

• Philip Walker used the Atherton scheme to walk away from more than half a million pounds of debt owed by his cleaning company
• He made net payments of almost £200,000 from his insolvent business into a new company he controlled, knowing Solus Facilities Limited could not pay its creditors
• Walker has been disqualified as a company director for seven years following Insolvency Service investigations into users of the scheme

A cleaning boss has been banned as a company director after transferring almost £200,000 out of his insolvent business into his new company.

Leicestershire-based Philip Walker was the director of Solus Facilities Limited, a company providing cleaning services for restaurants.

However, by April 2023, the…