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Poll: Boudicca the Victorious perfume sells for nearly £1,000 a bottle
The former boss of a company that supplies perfumes to Harrods is being investigated for selling products to Russia.
David Crisp, the former chief executive of Boadicea the Victorious, whose perfume bottles sell for nearly £1,000 in luxury department stores, is suspected of breaching the taxman’s penalties.
Export bans were put in place after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and this is HM Revenue & Customs’ first public criminal investigation into sanctions breaches in the two-and-a-half years since then.
Court documents reveal that Crisp was accused of intentionally violating these sanctions as late as last summer.
In October, Crisp was removed as a director of Boadicea and the president, David Garofalo, has taken legal action to block him from accessing the company. Garofalo received a temporary injunction to oust Crisp and the legal dispute between the two now continues.
Crisp’s lawyers have insisted he did not deliberately act against the ban and made an innocent mistake. And his legal team intends to appeal the decision to remove him as boss “as soon as possible”.
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