The Financial Conduct Authority has banned Howard Roland Duckett from working in financial services after finding that he lacked honesty and integrity.
Duckett was a senior manager at Beauforce Corporation Limited, a debt management firm.
The High Court disqualified him from acting as a company director for 10 years after finding that he had failed to maintain adequate records while serving as a director of an unrelated company.
The court also found that Duckett repeatedly lied and sought to rely on fabricated evidence to distance himself from the company and deny that he was a director. This included falsely claiming that a fictitious individual was responsible for running the business.
Duckett subsequently failed to tell the FCA…