Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
6YRS FOR BHS TAX DODGER CHAPPELL
He bought yacht, Bahamas hols and Bentley instead of paying up
conduct designed to cheat the Revenue”. Jailing him for six years
FORMER BHS owner Dominic on each count, to run concurrently,
Chappell was yesterday jailed he said: “You are not of positive
for six y years for dodging a good character. Your offending
massive tax bill. occurs against a backdrop of
successive bankruptcies.”
Chappe Chappell failed to pay around
Simon York, head of fraud inves£584,000 ta tax on £2.2million income
tigation at HMRC, blasted Chaphe received after buying the retailer
pell’s actions as “deliberate theft from Sir Ph Philip Green for £1 in 2015.
from UK citizens”.
Prosecu Prosecutors said he instead blew
He said: “Chappell knew tax had the cash on a £90,000 yacht, a
to be paid on his income and Bentley Continental, C a Bahamas
profits but chose not to do so. trip and so some expensive guns.
“That’s money that should have BHS col collapsed a year after Chap
b een suppor ting v ital public pell’s cont controversial deal with Sir
services instead of funding his Philip, with wit the loss of 11,000 jobs
lavish lifestyle.” and leavin leaving a huge black hole in its
Andrew Fox, of the Crown Prospension scheme. sc
ecution Service, Th e sc scand al
said: “Chappell led to calls for Sir
purchased the Philip t to be
struggling chain stripped of his
for j ust £1 and knighthoo knighthood.
was paid thouChapp Chappell, a
sands in his new father-o father-of-two
role, where he who is sai said to be
was tasked with estranged from
av oi ding more wife Rebecca, Reb
redundancies. 37, had denied d COLLAPSE BHS failed after takeover
“Instead, while three cha charges of
the company fell further into financheating the th public revenue related cial difficulty, he spent his new to his ban bankrupt finance company income on l uxury breaks and Swiss Rock Ltd. expensive yachts.
His lawy lawyers claimed he became “Using evidence gathered by - and is still - “utterly broke” HMRC we were able to show the because BHS’S hugely under - jury that Chappell simply chose funded “pension problem not to pay large amounts of tax exploded” within two weeks of his which were due and, as a result, takeover. B But a jury at Southwark th ey y were sure that h e had crown c court, Central acted dishonestly.” dishonestly
London, fo found him guilty In November last year, Chapof tax evasion ev after a pell, of Blandford Blandfor Forum, Dorset, trial las l a st i n g a l mo st was banned from f running any four week weeks. company for 10 years by
Addre Addressing the In Insolvency Service. Chappell i n the An And in January this dock, Mr Justice year he was ordered Br yan said sa he by t h e Pe n si o n s had en engaged Re Regulator to pay in a ““long £9 £9.5mi l lion into and conBH BHS’S schemes. sist sistent cours course of
DEAL Philip Green