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Vince Cable impersonator convicted for supplying false information

A conman made Vince Cable a director and shareholder of his company without the Liberal Democrat party leader’s knowledge, it has emerged.

Businessman Kevin Brewer incorporated John Vincent Cable Services Ltd in 2013, naming the former Business Secretary, who was serving in the coalition Government at the time, as a key stakeholder in the company.

Cleverly Clogs Ltd

After John Vincent Cable Services Ltd was dissolved and taken off the company register Brewer went on to form another firm in 2016 – Cleverley Clogs Ltd – making the Conservative MP James Cleverly a director and shareholder, along with Baroness Neville-Rolfe – the minister with responsibility for Companies House – and an imaginary Israeli national, Ibrahim Aman, without their knowledge.

Brewer has been fined for deliberately falsifying information about his firms in what Companies House believes is the “first ever conviction of its kind”.

Serious offence

The 65 year old, from Ullenhall in Warwickshire, was ordered to pay over £12,000 after he pleaded guilty to filing false information on the UK’s company register at a hearing in Redditch Magistrates’ Court earlier this month.

“This prosecution – the first of its kind in the UK – shows the Government will come down hard on people who knowingly break the law and file false information on the company register,” said business minister Andrew Griffiths.

Companies House said in a statement: “Deliberately filing false information on the register is a serious offence and people who have been found to have knowingly done this can face prosecution.”

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