There are rules against deliberately falsifying information, but enforcement is weak or non-existent: the only man who has ever been convicted of this crime—a company formation agent named Kevin Brewer—created two companies in politicians’ names, specifically to alert them to how easy it was for fraudsters to abuse British corporations. It was a publicity stunt, designed to shock them into action, but it achieved the opposite response. When he told them what he had done, he was prosecuted himself, and in March 2018 was fined £22,800, in a farcical legal proceeding that the British government’s
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