TPR to prosecute account manager for failing to provide workplace pensions

Accused of submitting false compliance

Kim Kaveh
clock • 2 min read

An accounts manager is to be prosecuted on suspicion of misleading The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to hide a failure to provide workplace pensions at a string of restaurants.

Mansoor Nasir was accused of submitting false declarations of workplace pension compliance to TPR, on behalf of nine linked businesses that he was the payroll adviser for between September 2014 and May 2017. The businesses were various restaurants called Akbar, and were based in Birmingham, Manchester, Yorkshire and the North East. According to the watchdog, Nasir - who works at Beaumont Management Services in Duncombe Road in Bradford - faces nine charges of knowingly or recklessly providing TPR with information which was false or misleading. He has been summonsed to appear at Bright...

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