Name: Mohammed Kashem Ali TAHID

Name: CHESTER FOODS LIMITED

Date of Birth: 7 / 12 / 1966

Date Order Starts: 18 / 8 / 2025

Disqualification Length: 10 Years 0 Month(s)

CRO Number: 11256959

Last Known Address: 131 Brooklands Road, , , , , SALE,, M33 3GJ

Conduct: 1. Mr Mohammed Kashem Ali Tahid (‘Mr Tahid’) Chester Foods Limited (‘CFL’) to act in breach of the rules of the Government-backed bounce back loan (‘BBL’) scheme by obtaining a BBL in the sum of £50,000 for which it was not eligible by providing false or knowingly inaccurate information concerning CFL’s period of trade and by failing to use the BBL monies wholly for the economic benefit of CFL, in that: - The terms of the BBL scheme were such that an applicant company could obtain a loan of up to 25% of its turnover for the 2019 calendar year if it had been trading before 01 January 2019 or of its estimated annual turnover if trading began after 01 January 2019, up to a maximum value of £50,000. In either case, an applicant company was required to declare that it was carrying on its business as at 01 March 2020 and to have suffered an adverse impact caused by the Covid pandemic. The BBL scheme rules required any BBL provided to be used wholly for the benefit of the applicant company and not for any personal use. - On 02 June 2020 Mr Tahid applied to CFL’s bank for a BBL in the sum of £50,000. The application was approved and CFL received the £50,000 loan monies on 02 June 2020. - CFL began trade in May 2018 but received no trade credits after 21 November 2019. - On 11 December 2019 CFL received £5,000 from a third party marked ‘Business purchase’ in its bank statements. - Mr Tahid has stated that CFL sold its restaurant business to the third party but that CFL carried on trading in another form. There is no evidence of trading by CFL in any way subsequent to 21 November 2019 and before 01 June 2020 in which period, according to CFL’s bank statements, credits received into its account represented loyalty credits from its bank, unpaid debit transactions, and two cash deposits of a combined total of £155, nor is there any evidence of CFL conducting trade thereafter in the period before liquidation on 30 May 2023. - On 02 June 2020 the BBL of £50,000 was received into CFL’s business current account, producing a credit balance of £50,150. - On 03 June 2020 and without further credits entering into the bank account, Mr Tahid caused CFL to make a payment to himself of £20,690 and to a supplier to CFL of £29,460. - Mr Tahid states that the payment to himself represented historic unpaid salary entitlements and that the payment to the supplier represented sums owed to that party. - MrTahid has failed to deliver up and/or to procure the delivery up to the Liquidator of any accounting records of CFL sufficient to explain the payments made on 03 June 2020 or any transactions passing through the company’s bank account. There is accordingly no evidence sufficient to demonstrate that the BBL was used to discharge liabilities owed to Mr Tahid and/or the supplier nor that, as required by the BBL scheme’s rules, the BBL was used solely for CFL’s economic benefit. - Mr Tahid placed CFL into creditors voluntary liquidation on 30 May 2023 owing at least £50,177 in respect of the BBL. 2. Mr Mohammed Kashem Ali Tahid (‘Mr Tahid’) breached his duties whilst acting as a director of Chester Foods Limited (‘CFL’) by failing to ensure that it complied with legislative requirements in that: - CFL employed a person who did not have a right to work in the United Kingdom, in breach of its statutory obligations under The Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (‘IANA’); - Following a visit from Home Office immigration officers on 17 November 2018, during which this breach of IANA was discovered, CFL was issued with a penalty notice in the sum of £15,000 which remained unpaid at the date of liquidation; - Mr Tahid was in office as a director from the date of CFL’s incorporation on 15 March 2018, at the date of the immigration officers’ visit on 17 November 2018 and at all times up to and including liquidation. 

This information is correct as at 28 / 7 / 2025

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