Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

Nuisance call leader in director ban

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Junk mail tycoon Tony Abbott made a mint by inflicting nuisance calls on the rest of us.

He drove a £200,000 Mclaren sports car, bought a 25-room mansion, and when he married in 2014 the ceremony was held at London’s Savoy hotel.

Abbott, 46, ran Reactiv Media Ltd, which was fined £75,000 by the Informatio­n Commission­er’s Office in

2015 for bombarding households with marketing calls.

The fine was never paid and Reactiv Media went into liquidatio­n.

Now Abbott has been banned from being a director for 12 years.

The Insolvency Service report into his disqualifi­cation reveals the dodgy tactics used by

Reactiv to obtain a business grant.

The size of the grant depended on the size of the company’s spending, and Abbott submitted invoices of £339,418 in support of the grant applicatio­n.

But the firms that he supposedly paid denied all knowledge of the invoices, which also mysterious­ly did not feature in Reactiv Media’s purchase ledgers.

In 2016 the Ministry of Justice revoked the company’s authorisat­ion to carry out claims management services.

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LIES Tony Abbott’s grant was unjustifie­d

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