Ex-boss of Scots cold-call firm which made 1.6m nuisance calls a day banned from being director

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The ex-boss of a nuisance cold-call firm has been banned from running companies for eight years. Duncan Paul, a former director of Clydebank-based firm CRDNN Limited, made lives a misery by allowing staff to plague homeowners with more than 1.6m cold calls a day.

The firm made millions of automated sales calls within a four-month period by targeting homes and businesses in 2018. The 51-year-old resigned from the West Dunbartonshire business which went into liquidation in 2021.A maximum fine of £500,000 was imposed by the Information Commissioner's Office in 2020 but it went unpaid.

Paul, of the East Dunbartonshire village of Balmore, on the outskirts of Glasgow, has now been disqualified from acting as a company director for eight years.His co-director, 44-year-old Stephen Foote, of the Glasgow suburb of Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, was also banned as a director for eight years in January 2023.Mike Smith, Chief Investigator at the Insolvency Service, said: "Duncan Paul's company plagued homes and businesses with nuisance cold-calls, disrupting the lives of millions of people."The calls were persistent, totally unsolicited, and to add to people’s frustration, they received further calls when they attempted to opt-out of receiving them."Paul and Foote were the directors of this firm and we have taken robust action to prevent them each from running or managing any company for eight years."We told previously how Paul had been slammed for flaunting supercars in the midst of the scandal.

He drove a string of luxury cars while running the nuisance call empire – including an Aston Martin, Range Rover and a white McLaren supercar.Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today.You'l