MR Leon KASAEI

Disqualified from

2025-10-23

Date of birth on record

February 1994

1. Mr Leon Kasaei, (‘Leon Kasaei’) breached his duties whilst acting as a director of L&R Leisure NE Ltd (‘L&R’) by failing to have any involvement in the running of its business, leaving that to his co-director, and in particular leaving him to ensure that L&R complied with its legislative requirements in that: • L&R did not comply 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; • As a result, Home Office Immigration Enforcement (“HOIE”) issued 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 which was not paid by L&R; • Leon Kasaei was a director of the company at the time of these breaches of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality legislation. 2. Leon Kasaei breached his duties whilst acting as a director of L&R by failing to have any involvement in L&R’s application for a second Government-backed Bounce Back Loan (‘BBL’) on 11 November 2020 which was made by his co-director and which was contrary to the terms of the BBL scheme, which did not permit two loans to be obtained by the same business. 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 Leon Kasaei’s co-director applied for a BBL from another bank, Bank B, for 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; • 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.