The former owner of BHS is making a “cynical attempt to rewrite history” by trying to overturn a conviction relating to the retailer’s pension funds, a court has been told.
Dominic Chappell, 51, bought the chain from Sir Philip Green through his company Retail Acquisitions for £1 in March 2015. The company crashed a year later with the loss of 11,000 jobs, leaving a pension deficit of £571m.
The Pensions Regulator moved to protect the pensions of 19,000 members and made three requests for information under the Pensions Act 2004 in April and May 2016 and February 2017.
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