App in the Air UK

(asked on 8th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to investigate the affairs of App In The Air U.K. Ltd, a company registered at Companies House on 3 March 2022 with Mikhail Shelkov as the person with significant control.


Answered by
Lord Callanan Portrait
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 16th March 2022

We are unable to comment on individual cases.

The Registrar of Companies has no current powers to verify information properly delivered in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 or other enactments.

However, following extensive consultation over 2020 and 2021, the Government published on 28 February 2022 a detailed White Paper (copy attached) setting out far-reaching reforms to Companies House which will mean that:

  • Anyone setting up, running, owning or controlling a company in the UK will need to verify their identity with Companies House;
  • The Registrar will have new powers to challenge information that appears dubious, and will be empowered to inform security agencies of potential wrongdoing;
  • Company agents from overseas will no longer be able to create companies in the UK on behalf of foreign criminals or secretive oligarchs.

It is the Government’s intention to bring forward appropriate legislation early in the next session of this Parliament.

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