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Wine investment company boss jailed
Wine investment company director Benedict Moruthoane has been jailed for 7.5 years for fraud.
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Oddbins applies for administration
Oddbins has applied to go into administration to protect it from creditors applying for winding up orders.
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Top Oddbins staff payout as 120 made redundant
A senior Oddbins employee was paid a five-figure sum early in March in redundancy compensation, three weeks before the company's 120 staff were made redundant.
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Oddbins: buyers’ interest grows
Interest in the Oddbins portfolio, range of shops and stock is increasing, while the winding up order from Pol Roger Ltd is withdrawn.
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Oddbins administrators ‘close to deal’
The administrators in charge of Oddbins are confident a deal will be finalised for the chain by the end of this week.
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Oddbins: 37 shops sold
Thirty-seven Oddbins shops have been sold as a going concern to EFB (European Food Brokers) Ltd.
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Final Oddbins stores close
The last Oddbins shops closed last night with the loss of around 300 jobs.
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Baile buys back Oddbins branches
Simon Baile, the former owner of Oddbins, has prompted a flurry of negative comment after buying five of his shops back from administrators Deloitte.
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Cars, cocaine and Cartier watches: court hears how one Bordeaux trader celebrated 2005
The head of a wine investment company has admitted going on a cocaine-fuelled spending spree with investors' money but denies fraudulent trading.
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Bordeaux Wine Trading fraudster convicted
The managing director of a company selling non-existent Bordeaux en primeur has been found guilty of fraud.
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Complaints mount against 1855.com
Clients of online wine merchant 1855.com are becoming increasingly concerned about delivery of their wines.
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Appeal court upholds Red Bicyclette sentences
The French appeal court in Montpellier has upheld the sentences handed down in the notorious Red Bicyclette fake Pinot Noir case.
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Bordeaux UK goes into voluntary liquidation
Wine merchant Bordeaux UK Ltd, which sold wine investments, has gone into voluntary liquidation.
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Fake football agent defrauds Luxembourg merchant
A Luxembourg wine merchant has been defrauded of thousands of Euros of wine by a man posing as the agent for a premier league footballer.
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Fine wine company disappears leaving clients empty-handed
Another UK fine wine company has disappeared from the radar leaving orders unfulfilled – while its director sets up a similar company under another name.
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Pinguet leaves Domaine Huet in shock resignation
Veteran Loire winemaker Noel Pinguet's sudden resignation from Domaine Huet was over differences with the owning family, Decanter.com has learned.
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‘Scholarly’ beer tome wins André Simon
The Oxford Companion to Beer has won the prestigious André Simon Memorial Award Drinks Book category.
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Beaumont Vintners bankrupt, few assets
Wine investment company Beaumont Vintners went into liquidation on 5 April.
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Pancho Campo resigns from Institute of Masters of Wine
Pancho Campo, who was at the centre of last year's controversy around the organisation of wine tastings in Spain, has resigned from the Institute of Masters of Wine.
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London City Bond buys military bunker for wine storage
Wine storage firm London City Bond will expand its number of private vaults for clients after buying an old Second World War munitions bunker.
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UK police probe suspected fraud at wine investment firm
UK police say that they have exposed an investment firm that took up to £1m in orders for fine wine that it never had access to.
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UK court closes wine investment firm with millions owed
A UK wine investment company that took millions of pounds of investors' money for wine it never had access to has been closed in the public interest.
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Wine investment firm disappears
Another UK-based wine investment company has disappeared leaving many of its customers empty handed.
