Director of fake wine investment firm banned

The head of a wine investment firm that conned people out of at least £382,000 has been disqualified as a director for 11 years by the UK’s Insolvency Service. Jonothan Piper, director of fake wine investment firm Embassy Wine UK Ltd, was banned for ‘causing or failing to prevent the company from selling wine to customers which it failed to provide, purchasing wine from customers which it failed to pay them for, and charging fees to customers for which no service was provided’.