Victim of Rogue Director?

[kaptainkrunchie]

I recently booked a holiday cottage for my family through a limited company.
The company claimed they did not take credit cards and insisted on a bank transfer.

Two weeks after booking I received a letter from an insolvency practitioner advising that the company had applied for Creditors Voluntary Liquidation.

I have researched this company and discovered the director has done this 29 times previously.

Her husband and son have a similar track record.
The company website is still running, as is a website from her previously dissolved company.

1.00) Is it legal for her to retain this website which would have been an asset of her dissolved company? I have tried to find (without success) who the previous liquidator is to find out if she paid her previous company to use this website.

2.00) How sure can I be that the liquidator will act impartially especially in regard to an action under Section 214 of the Insolvency Act 1986? After so many bankruptcies she may have a nice "cosy" arrangement with the liquidator (hence trying to establish who the previous ones were)

3.00) When does the liquidator have a duty to inform me details of all other known creditors?

4.00) Finally, is there any official body, apart from the liquidator who can investigate the competence of this person to be a company director?
29 liquidations seems more than poor business judgement.

[enquirer]

Re: Victim of Rogue Director?

They may not own the website. They probably owe money on it, anyway

29 liquidations certainly justifies looking into who the liquidators were.

A person can certainly be disqualified from being a Company Director. You might contact Companies House to see what they have to say. As this is obviously fraud, perhaps it's time to contact the Police.