Construction boss jailed for £2m tax fraud

A construction boss has been jailed for stealing over £2m of taxpayers’ money while he was in control of multiple failing companies.
Ben Richardson, 47, from Deal, Kent, pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to multiple tax evasion offences and was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment.
Richardson ran four companies, all involved in the sale of modular buildings to construction sites between October 2010 and July 2019.His wife, Dawn Richardson, 47, was involved in all four com