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Brighton Magistrates’ Court on 11 January 2018, and ordered to pay a fine of £50,000 and £37,000 court costs. Chappell said he could not pay because he had “no funds”, and claimed he had extensive outgoings, of almost £9,000 per month made up of: £3,800 a month rent on a Dorset mansion; £2,666 a
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Dominic Chappell and his fellow directors' extraction of millions in professional fees
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On 26 April 2016, it was reported that when it became likely that BHS would be going into receivership, Chappell had moved £1.5 million from the firm to a company owned by a friend who was also a fellow board member of Retail
Acquisitions. The sum had been later refunded at the request of BHS's
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Acquisitions Limited, the company used by Chappell to take over BHS in 2015, was wound up by the High Court of Justice on 3 May 2017 on the petition of BHS, owed £6.1M in respect of an unpaid loan. Chappell had previously disclosed that Retail Acquisitions Limited had paid £1.5M to settle a
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22:(born 28 November 1966) is a failed British businessman who has been declared bankrupt on three occasions and was convicted for tax evasion. In 2015, his company, Retail Acquisitions Ltd, purchased the now collapsed retail chain
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Arcadia, Chappell extracted £1,789,250 within three months of acquiring control of BHS.
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Chappell launched the
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460:"Here is everything we know about BHS' new owner Retail Acquisitions, and what it is planning for the department store"
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