‘Baffling’ new company registrations in Northern Ireland

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‘Baffling’ trend of new company registrations in Northern Ireland sees businesses registered with Companies House at addresses that seem to have no connection with the entities concerned and which are mostly controlled by UK resident Chinese nationals.

Eighty-five Wellesley Avenue in the Malone Road area of Belfast is a terraced redbrick that has been divided into units that are rented out for student accommodation.

According to the document, the company is owned by a UK resident Chinese national called Zian Liang, who is also its sole director. His “service address”, according to the filing, is the student flat in Belfast. The office accommodation is empty and is being advertised online as available for a rent of £80 per week. A spokeswoman for McAlfee Properties, of Ballymoney, said they had been looking for a new tenant for the property for about a month.

On March 21st of this year a new company called Wirz Ludwig was incorporated and the Registrar of Companies for Northern Ireland was told that 2 Church Street, Ederney, Co Fermanagh, was its registered address. The address is an empty shopfront premises that was a hairdressers until the beginning of the pandemic. Now the empty building is on the market with the Propertypal.

The addresses associated with the companies range from small office studios in old buildings in residential areas, to gleaming new office blocks such as the grade A East Tower of the Lanyon Plaza development in Belfast. Some of the addresses are those of business parks or office blocks with the address not being specific enough to identify the particular building or office that is the registered address.

“We can assure you that we take this very seriously,” the statement said, adding that the company was a registeredThe formation process it enabled was entirely online and completed by the customer, the statement said. “We can confirm that we carry out electronic verification and/or certification of government-issued photo identification to verify the identity of all our customers.

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Surely you confirmed that the Authority's already know about this. Seems this could be an elaborate scam PSNIBelfast

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