Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Nuisance call leader in director ban
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.