AN ASIAN couple has been sentenced for breaching a disqualification order by operating companies in the UK for more than five years despite a ban linked to tax fraud claims.
Bharat Jogia, 71, from the West Midlands, had been disqualified as a company director for 13 years in 2014 after not disputing that he caused Jogia Jewellers (UK) Limited to wrongfully claim more than 2 million pounds from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
The UK’s Insolvency Service found that he continued to control pharmaceutical firms Diamond Pharma Limited and BHJ Consulting Ltd despite the ban.
His wife, 57-year-old Louise Jogia, was found to have “aided and abetted” him in breaching the disqualification and acted as the official director of BHJ Consulting.
“Bharat…