Our Investigation and Enforcement Services (IES) division has a vacancy for a Administrative Support Officer in the new Criminal Referrals Profiling team in Compliance and Targeting (CaT). CaT are responsible for considering insolvent and dissolved companies for investigation under the Company Directors Disqualification Act, live companies for investigation under the Companies Act, and referrals of allegations of criminal offences for investigation where this vacancy is located.
CaT also perform compliance work (as set out below), and when that fails, it will refer cases for possible criminal investigation or direct prosecution.
Common tasks the CaT team undertakes include:
Making targeting decisions in all compulsory and non-compulsory corporate insolvency cases using the office-holder’s director conduct report (DCRS), seeking additional information where necessary. This includes managing the “balancing pool” of cases which have been identified as suitable for possible investigation, but where they are considered to be lower priority or include possible Bounce Back Loan related misconduct and further enquiries are required of the insolvency office-holder (Insolvency Practitioner or Official Receiver), before the targeting decision can be confirmed.
Handling specific complaints about live and dissolved companies from members of the public, other regulators and internal referrals and decide if powers under section 447 of the Companies Act 1985 or the dissolved company powers under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 should be deployed.
Reviewing referrals of criminal allegations and make targeting decisions in relation to the commencement of criminal investigations, including referrals from Companies House arising from the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.
Handling complaints about disqualified directors and bankrupts acting in breach of their disqualifications or restrictions (including the re-use of prohibited names).
Undertaking compliance work on cases involving the re-use of prohibited names and disqualified directors who fail to resign from all their active directorships at Companies House, referring cases where compliance is not obtained to Legal Services Directorate (LSD) for prosecution and act on behalf of the Secretary of State in applications for leave to act in companies with a prohibited name.
Providing a range of case management support functions, both internally and externally.