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MR DARREN JAMES POPELY

1 current appointment · 19 resigned

Director disqualification 1

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DARREN JAMES POPELY

9 Years 0 Month(s)
Same company (no. 07304723) Same month of birth Name matched
Disqualified from
2022-05-18
Date of birth on record
September 1969

From at the latest 21 October 2011 to 23 May 2013, whilst sole appointed director of Oak Forest Partnership Ltd [“OFP”], Darren James Popely (“Mr Popely”) breached his duties as a director of OFP. A) He allowed OFP to enter into an agreement with a connected mortgagee whereby OFP would not receive the balance of mortgage funds due from said connected mortgagee until the respective mortgages were paid in full, upon the completion of the 10 year mortgage. This caused OFP’s available cashflow balance to be reduced by at least £4,118,367 and was with full knowledge that OFP’s investors could, on the fourth anniversary of their investment, seek to require OFP to buy back their leasehold interest in the unit at Hever Hotel & Country Club [“Hever Hotel”]. No monies were received from the mortgagee and at the date of the CVL the connected mortgagee owed OFP at least £4,118,367 whilst OFP;s liabilities totalled £14,325,906, including at least £8,349,950 due to investors under their lease buy-back. B) On 23 May 2013, he caused and/or allowed OFP to enter into a lease for the common parts of Hever Hotel [“Hever Hotel CP lease”] with a connected party, White Linen Hotel & Resorts Limited [“WLHR”], at a time when he knew that two creditors of OFP were seeking repayment of, and contractually due security for, their liabilities, which remained due in full as at the date of the CVL. OFP had forsaken receipt of at least £4,781,000 from a connected company; had made payments totalling £3,551,012 to two connected companies, £1,910,000 of which was due to be repaid but not until January 2023; and had made further payments totalling £5,964,928 from total funds received by OFP totalling £9,640,264. The Solicitors had advised the Company that entering the agreement would make the lease worthless. Its immediate consequences was that it reduced the value of OFP’s freehold property by £1,498,284 whilst its consequence at the point upon which OFP entered into Liquidation was to hamper the Joint Liquidators attempts to realise OFP’s assets.

Details

Occupation
PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE
Nationality
BRITISH
Country of residence
ENGLAND
Date of birth
September 1969
Correspondence address
21-23 CROYDON ROAD, CATERHAM, SURREY, ENGLAND, CR3 6PA

Track record

20

companies, the first appointed in 2002. 5 are now dissolved, 12 still on the register.

5 of them are registered at the same address (BR7 5AE) — commonly an accountant, a shared office or a family business.

Appointments 20

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