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Thursday 1 August 2024

SCOTT DYLAN AND FRIENDS WHO THOUGHT THEY COULD SILENCE THE DAME


 
Honourable Mr Justice Rajah...a Chancery Silk... and not a man to lie to


L to R Antrobus and Mason

 

But who is this? When the Dame published his pic before Dylan forced google to remove it.
He prefers this enhanced one below...and who wouldn't...talk about silk purses and sows' ears!


TRUE IMAGE OF DYLAN REMOVED SO AS NOT TO SHOCK READERS

This is not how Dylan looks!!!! Mail the Dame if you can bear to see the reality.

The Dame praises Michael Taylor(the Business Desk) and Kevin Gopal, the freelance journalist,  for their relentless forensic efforts. Who says we don't need investigative journalists!

Hornets will recall how Dylan and friends attempted to have FTHN taken down.... for months they succeeded. 

From The Business Desk

Michael Taylor, Editor

Two Manchester entrepreneurs behind Inc & Co have been found to be in contempt of court by breaching three freezing orders, the High Court in London has ruled.

Barclays Bank brought a civil case against Jack Mason and David Antrobus claiming they conspired to move assets offshore in breach of various freezing orders brought against them and their business associate Scott Dylan.

They face a further challenge from Barclays that £13.7m was taken from the bank without authorisation. Both Mason, the chief executive, and Antrobus, the chief technology officer of Inc & Co, claimed the asset transfers were done without their knowledge or consent.

In the Rolls Building at the Royal Courts of Justice Mr Justice Rajah said he found their evidence at different times to be “inherently incredible”, “strained credulity”, and contained “deliberate falsehoods”.

He said he was “satisfied, beyond reasonable doubt, that Mr Antrobus and Mr Mason breached..(various freezing orders) … by knowingly assisting or permitting” transfers of shares.

Barclays’ wider claim is that Dylan, Mason and Antrobus, and others, conspired to take assets to the value of £13.7m, for which they are subject to freezing orders. In defiance of those orders they transferred shares linked to Fresh Thinking Group, an independent capital investment group, now in liquidation, to two new entities set up in the offshore British Virgin Islands. 

Initially all three businessmen insisted the transfers were carried out by a Seychelles-based director “Rea Barreau” and that they were unaware of the transactions.

Yet in a dramatic about-turn after two days of the hearing Scott Dylan admitted to two breaches, which took his colleagues by surprise.

Dylan admitted that on or about 23 March 2022 he knowingly assisted in and/or permitted the breaches of freezing order by transferring shares to a British Virgin Islands company.

He also admitted to most of the “accepted facts” laid out in the Contempt Application against him with the express proviso that his acceptance is confined to the Contempt Application against him (including at any sentencing hearing) and will not be used or held against him for any other purpose.

The judge said he didn’t accept the explanation that the transfers were the work of “Rea Barreau”, nor that she was even appointed as a director of the businesses as was claimed.

The judge said both Antrobus and Mason “presented as competent, confident and able business people” and that “their evidence that they had naively and unquestioningly accepted important matters they were told by Mr Dylan or others, or signed important documents that were drafted for them by nameless people, strained credulity”.

After describing the unlikely scenario whereby directors of a company would have no contact “of any kind” with someone of the status “Rea Barreau” supposedly held, in a company subject to litigation and freezing orders, the judge went on to say: “There was no contact between them at all. This is very far removed from the real commercial world. It is inherently incredible.” 

On Mason’s evidence the Judge said: “I can be sure, and am sure, that Mr Mason’s various explanations about this alleged transfer of shares were deliberate falsehoods.”

Mason, Antrobus and Dylan will be sentenced for the contempt breach in October.

Mason, who lives in Barcelona, has been required to surrender his passport.

As previously reported on TheBusinessDesk.com, a court date of January 13, 2025, has been agreed for the full civil case brought by Barclays Bank against Dylan, Gareth Dylan, Dave Antrobus, plus Sally Ann Glover, a relative of one of the other defendants, over £13.7m it claims they took from the bank without authorisation and for their “personal enrichment”.

A second claim is brought against Fresh Thinking Group (now known as Old3 Limited), Mason and Inc Travel Group Limited (now known as Old2 Limited) which are both now in compulsory liquidation.

Barclays’ case is that all the individual defendants were also involved in a conspiracy to cause damage to Barclays by unlawful means. The defendants deny the conspiracy allegation and are contesting the claims made by Barclays.

The claims arise from the transfer, by subsidiaries of Fresh Thinking Group, of some £13.7m from accounts held with Barclays which, at the time, had no or no material credit balance. 

Barclays says that there were some 830 payments of amounts just below the £50,000 threshold that would have caused the payment requests to have been referred for further approval.

Barclays says that the money went to Fresh Thinking Group and one of its other subsidiaries, FT Ops Limited before onward disbursement and the “personal enrichment” of the defendants

Reproduced courtesy of The Business Desk.

16 comments:

  1. The men are completely innocent and I am confident they will be vindicated. They will succeed in their quest to bring down FTHN.

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    1. Judge Rajah got the measure of this lot. Read his judgement. It is damming.

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    2. Innocent? 19: 56 You are dimwitted as Mason, Dylan etc. Dylan has admitted he was in contempt of court. Judgment day is in October. Sounds like Dylan will do no more harm to hundreds of people. Long live the Dame.

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    3. Sounds like the thieves are falling out too

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    4. Their big quest needs to be staying out of His Majesty's Pleasure.

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    5. Well done Judge Rajah. Brilliant summing up and judgment

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  2. Good to hear Barclays won the £13.7M freezing order action against the Directors.

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  3. Bravo & there was I thinking that you were off away on your yacht cruising the Baltic. I should have known that the Dame is never 'off duty'.
    Your account exposes yet again the damage that Tax Havens ( mainly based in Crown Dependences ) do to the British economy and our Legal system . I do so hope that our excellent new MP Joe Powell will continue his campaign against all forms of 'dirty money'.
    Its also time that the nonsense of 'Crown Dependencies' was done away with too. They should all ( Including the Channel Islands) simply be incorporated & taxed as part of Britain. If the French , Dutch & Danish can all absorb the vestiges of their Empires into the mainland why shouldn't Starmer's Britain do the same ?

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  4. Wow...Dylan is pig ugly

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    1. Prison Governor3 August 2024 at 10:40

      Dylan has aged very badly. Decrepitude is setting in. He is fat from too much good living on other people's money. The diet in His Majesty's Prisons does not run to expensive gourmandising. Porridge, baked beans, and very little fruit, an apple a day if he is lucky. Far cry from the Three Star Michelin places to which he has become accustomed.

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  5. How on earth could Barclays let this take place? Heads must roll. I notice that Dylan claimed the bank had 'enticed' him to take out loans...you could not make it up

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  6. Retired Magistrate3 August 2024 at 04:18

    Dear Dame,

    I do not understand why Dylan and Antrobus were not required to surrender their passports to the police or the Court pending sentencing in October. They could both do a moonlight flit, with the Bank's money, before their next Court appearance.

    I am sure Mr. Justice Rajah must have passed comment during the Contempt hearing the behaviour of the defendants does not just incur liability for Contempt of Court and liability for civil wrongs, the defendants conduct is also within the ambit of the CRIMINAL LAW.

    Have the police charged anyone with any offences or sent a file to the Crown Prosecution Service for a charging decision?

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  7. I think our Good Lady, The Dame, should invite Joe Powell MP to tea at The Ritz to discuss this scam. That boy has got a very good brain and his observations would be invaluable.

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  8. For once, a big bank is on the side of the righteous.

    The vast majority of judges are very canny. They can sniff out a wrong 'un a mile off. It's why they're judges.

    Good journalists pursue important stories for the benefit of the public.

    The Dame is a priceless asset to our community. She praises where praise is due and ruthlessly pursues wrongdoers. This is truly a virtuous circle.

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  9. I've always wondered why The Dame seems to have such a big problem with these individuals.

    Once again, it looks like The Dame is presenting a heavily biased narrative, similar to what we often see from The Business Desk, which, let’s be honest, isn’t really providing a balanced view of the situation in the true sense. You can tell that the journalist writing these stories has a vendetta.

    It feels like they’re more interested in stirring up controversy rather than considering the emerging facts. From what I’ve gathered, it appears that Barclays' own employees caused this situation, and now they seem to be trying to silence those involved through costly legal battles.

    Isn't this turning into a real David vs. Goliath story? How can anyone possibly take on both a major bank and the media and hope to come out on top?

    I genuinely feel sorry for these individuals. Come on, The Dame, you’re better than this one-sided coverage.

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    1. Thanks for this pals of Mason and Dylan

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