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The Baldwins Travel store in Maidstone, Kent, last


May, two months before the agency was formally wound up in the High Court; inset, Barclays Bank previously obtained freezing orders on assets including the company


Two ex-Baldwins owners handed directorship ban


Scott Dylan and David Antrobus barred by Insolvency Service. Ian Taylor reports


Two of the three former owners of Baldwins Travel have been banned from acting as company directors for a combined total of 23 years. The Insolvency Service barred Scott


Dylan and David Antrobus from being directors in December following a High Court ruling that they channelled £13.9 million in unauthorised overdrafts through companies which they subsequently wound up. The money has yet to be recovered. Dylan was banned for 13 years and


Antrobus for 10. Insolvency Service chief investigator Victoria Edgar noted


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the pair operated “little short of a scam” and left insolvencies “worth more than £52 million”. The disqualification notice made


no mention of Baldwins Travel and its failure, the cost of which will be in addition to that £52 million, but the company was intricately bound up with Dylan, Antrobus and former Baldwins director Jack Mason’s affairs after they acquired the travel agency in September 2021. Dylan was a director of Fresh


Thinking Group which, through associated company Inc Travel


Group, acquired Baldwins. At the time, Dylan was subject to a 2019 court undertaking not to act as a director while facing disqualification proceedings in relation to a separate company, SDRW Ltd. The SDRW proceedings ended


last September with The Insolvency Service imposing a separate eight-year ban on Dylan for acting as a director while bankrupt in breach of a 2005 court order – suggesting he has been


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