On the go: The Pensions Regulator has bared its teeth against a Bradford-based accounts manager who allegedly covered up a failure to provide workplace pensions at a string of restaurants.
Mansoor Nasir, who works at Beaumont Management Services in Duncombe Road, Bradford, is accused of submitting false declarations of workplace pension compliance to the regulator on behalf of nine Akbar restaurants in Birmingham, Manchester, Yorkshire and the North East that he was the payroll adviser for, between September 2014 and May 2017.
Mr Nasir faces nine charges of knowingly or recklessly providing The Pensions Regulator with information which was false or misleading, contrary to section 80 of the Pensions Act 2004.
If found guilty, the offence carries a maximum sentence in a magistrates’ court of an unlimited fine, and in the Crown Court a fine or up to two years’ imprisonment.
He has been summoned to appear at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on 9 January 2019.
The Pensions Regulator has been taking an increasingly tough stance when it comes to enforcement – only this week it launched a criminal investigation into a suspected £18m pension fraud with six people questioned by the police.
