A car sales executive has been spared jail after he admitted diverting more than £11,000 of dealership sales proceeds into his personal bank account.
Thousands of business interruption (BI) insurance policy pay-outs contested by insurers who claimed that they did not include COVID-19 cover will be paid out following a ruling in the Supreme Court.
A fast-thinking TrustFord employee chased and apprehended a car thief who pushed aside a sales executive before speeding from the AM100 retail group’s Castleford forecourt in an £8,000 Audi A1.
A used car dealer convicted of “clocking” 11 years ago has been ordered to repay a further £146,000 in criminal gains assets.
Volkswagen Group’s former chairman Martin Winterkorn will stand trial for fraud alongside four other former VW employees in connection to their alleged part in the dieselgate emissions scandal.
A car thief has been jailed for 20 months for his part in a raid on an Inchcape car dealership in which £21,000 of parts were stripped from a rare Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport hot hatch.
A celebrity car dealer who had been placed on the FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list faces up to 20 years in jail after pleading guilty to a £420,000 luxury vehicle sales scam.
A car dealership’s financial controller has been jailed for three years for defrauding the business of £252,000 as its owner struggled to fund his wife’s treatment for cancer.
Croation officials have arrested former Audi executive Axel Eiser in connection to conspiracy charges related to the Volkswagen dieselgate scandal in the US.
Credit card firms could face significant damages claims after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Visa and Mastercard, ruling that fees the companies were charging retailers restrict competition.
Mercedes-Benz owners could demand compensation in a High Court class action alleging that the German premium carmaker used a ‘defeat device’ system to cheat diesel emissions tests.
A High Court judge has concluded that the Volkswagen Group did install illegal emissions defeat devices to its cars to rule in favour of a class action brought by 90,000 aggrieved owners.
Father and son directors of a used car dealership have been banned from running companies after they put Car Place Birmingham into liquidation without paying fines incurred in Trading Standards prosecutions.
An independent used car dealership has been ordered to pay £14,000 after attempting to sell and Audi Q7 SUV having ‘clocked’ the vehicle to remove 30,000 miles from its mileage.
The former owner of Bolton’s IGW car dealership group has won a £310,000 VAT battle with the HMRC from his jail cell while serving a life sentence for the 2011 murder of his wife.
A director of classic car dealer Tom Hartley has been handed a nine-month suspended jail sentence following his involvement in a crash involving a Ferrari 458 Spider and a Porsche 118 Cayman GTS.
The director of independent used car retailer Carpoint has been handed an 18-week suspended jail sentence in relation to car clocking offences.
A Marshall Motor Holdings Maserati brand manager has been jailed for 14 months after diverting almost £200,000 of luxury car sales payments into his personal bank account.
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) chairman Adrian Smith’s decision to step-down from his post with immediate effect following his conviction for drink driving.
The chairman of the Institute of the Motor Industry and former chief executive of the Scottish Motor Trade Association (SMTA), Adrian Smith, has been convicted of drink driving.
