So Companies House do not check addresses
"If you believed the paperwork, Henry Drive in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, would be a thriving business metropolis specialising in the wholesale clothing market with entrepreneurs from across Europe choosing this leafy Essex street as their operations base.But the paperwork cannot be trusted. In the past four months at least 80 bogus companies have been registered to properties on the street - 14 of them in the past week.Each business purports to be involved in selling clothes and has a single company officer invariably described as an "entrepreneur" who lives in either Italy, Georgia, Germany, France or Morocco.""Companies House, which charges £12 a pop for an internet business incorporation, says under the current laws, if company paperwork is properly filed, signed and the registration fee paid, it has to be registered."https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-66773673I'd have thought that even a minimal service would include actually checking the UK addresses, and upping the fees too. Still, what would I know? I could never have made it as an accountant or a lawyer.https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/getting-companies-house-in-order-the-rise-of-fraud-on-the-uks-company-register-aAWfV5U6IpnD
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