Companies Investigation Branch closes seven recruitment businesses

Following investigations from the Companies Investigation Branch (CIB) ,seven recruitment advertising firms have been wound up after it was found they were deceiving health trusts into paying for job adverts that had been already placed.

Companies with similar names to long-established publications, were cold calling the trusts pretending to be verifying details of the job adverts.Six of the firms obtained more than £600,000 between August 2006 and March 2009, according to the Insolvency Service.

The firms, all based in Leamington Spa, were called: First Call Publications, Mode Enterprises, Community Care Jobs Online, BMJ UK, Nursing Today, Nursing Tomorrow and Reload Recruitment.