MR Keivan KASAEI

Disqualified from

2025-10-23

Date of birth on record

June 1962

1. Mr Amir Keivan Kasaei, (‘Amir Kasaei’) breached his duties whilst acting as a director of L&R Leisure NE Ltd (‘L&R’) by failing to ensure that it complied with its legislative requirements in that: • Amir Kasaei delegated the hiring of employees to a former director/employee of L&R and failed to ensure that, in doing so, L&R complied with its statutory obligations under The Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act“) resulting in the employment of 5 people who did not have the right to work or the right to work for the tasks they were performing; • Home Office Immigration Enforcement (“HOIE”) carried out a visit to the trading premises of L&R on 11 February 2023, Amir Kasaei co-operated with the HOIE investigation but it resulted in HOIE issuing a Notification of Liability for Civil Penalties on 23 March 2023 amounting to £50,000 in respect of the employment of 5 workers, payment of which was due on or before 17 April 2023; • L&R did not make any payments to HOIE in respect of the outstanding penalties; • Amir Kasaei was a director of the company at the time of these breaches of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality legislation. 2. On 11 November 2020 Amir Kasaei made an online application L&R to obtain a second Government-backed Bounce Back Loan (‘BBL’) contrary to the terms of the BBL scheme, which did not permit two loans to be obtained by the same business. At the time he did not know, but should have known, that L&R had made a previous application for a BBL with its bank. In addition, the first BBL was not used in its entirety for the economic benefit of L&R’s business. In that: • The BBL scheme permitted a loan of up to 25% of a business’ turnover in the calendar year 2019, or estimated annual turnover if it had been established after 01 January 2019, up to a maximum of £50,000; • Only one BBL per business was permitted and there was a standard declaration on the application form that it was the only BBL applied for; • On 07 May 2020 L&R obtained a BBL of £40,000 from its bank, Bank A; • On 11 November 2020 Amir Kasaei applied online for a BBL from another bank, Bank B, for what he now knows, but should have known at the time, was a second BBL totalling £50,000; • On 11 December 2020 this second BBL totalling £50,000 was paid into L&R’s account with Bank B; • The only explanation provided by Amir Kasaei is that he believed that the BBL from Bank A was a regular loan; • Following the receipt of the BBL from Bank A on 11 May 2020, a total of £38,000 was transferred to L&R’s account with Bank B in the period to 19 May 2020; • Of these monies £35,000 was transferred to a connected company; • No explanation has been provided for these payments to date; • At the liquidation date £32,798 was still outstanding to Bank A for the BBL obtained and £36,745 was owed to Bank B.