Financial crime experts say 'burner companies' are 'most likely part of a criminal network'.
In the past three months more than 80 fake companies have been registered to properties in Henry DriveIf you believed the paperwork, Henry Drive in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, would be a thriving business metropolis specialising in the wholesale clothing market with entrepreneurs from across Europe choosing this leafy Essex street as their operations base.
The addresses given for these "entrepreneurs" are sometimes real, sometimes just a general street name or unlikely dwellings, such as an empty building lot in Morocco or a religious meeting hall in rural France. For people like Ian Ross and his wife Tess, who have had six fake companies registered to their home in the past few weeks, the situation is disturbing and frustrating in equal measure.
"None of these businesses have anything to do with me," he says. "The first one was set up at the beginning of June, the latest one was set up two days ago." One of the main questions people affected ask is why anybody would want to register a fake business using the address of an innocent stranger.
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