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Captain Tom’s daughter’s company is set to be struck off after making thousands of pounds from the Covid hero’s charity.
Hannah Ingram-Moore and husband Colin have been embroiled in scandal since it came to light that they had funnelled charity cash into an illegal spa.
Captain Tom became a national icon amid the Covid pandemicCredit: Reuters
But his name became associated with scandal when daughter Hannah funnelled money from charity to build an illegal spaCredit: PA
The couple have long tried to defend themselves in court, been dumped as trustees for the Captain Tom Foundation and have now run into more woes.
The Ingram-Moores’ consultancy firm Maytrix Group Ltd, which raked in a huge amount of cash from the drama-hit foundation, is now set to be struck off.
Companies House shows the business is nearly two months late with its accounts, which should have been due on May 21, 2024.
This is also the third time in the last four years that it’s been threatened with a “notice for compulsory strike-off”.
Maytrix Group took up to £100,000 in furlough money and £47,500 in Covid loans despite bumper profits in the pandemic.
The Captain Tom Moore Foundation accounts also reveal that the firm made a fortune from expenses that it charged the charity.
According to the foundation’s accounts, Maytrix Group was handed back £37,942 in reimbursements “in respect of website costs (£5,030), photography costs (£550), office rental (£4,500), telephone costs (£656) and third-party consultancy costs (£27,205)".
The company’s latest accounts, which was released on September 28, show that accumulated profit had fallen from £195,855 to £170,233, a drop of £25,622.
Hannah is listed as a founding director, and Colin the chief executive.
The Sun has approached Maytrix Group Ltd and the Captain Tom Foundation for comment.
The company’s listed phone number doesn’t ring and it’s website says it "can’t be reached".
It comes just one week after The Sun exclusively revealed the foundation still had £280,000 of assets in the bank.
Earlier this month Colin was struck off from his top spot as director of the charity after being barred as a trustee - alongside Hannah - by the Charities Commission.
The couple were banned as charity trustees for eight and 10 years respectively.
In November the couple were ordered to tear down the unauthorised luxury spa.
They had six weeks to rescue the building after losing a court case in October - but failed to launch an appeal.
The Planning Inspectorate previously ruled the spa was built illegally. will have to be pulled down in three months.
Central Bedfordshire Council originally granted the couple permission to erect a small charity office in the name of the Captain Tom Foundation in 2021.
Hanna and Colin’s statement claimed the building was to be used partly "in connection with The Captain Tom Foundation and its charitable objectives".
Then, in 2022, they submitted a subsequent retrospective application for an extension to form a C-shape building, containing a spa pool.
The structure was referred to as The Captain Tom Building and described as "a new building for use by the occupiers", aka Hannah and Colin.
The court heard this later "evolved" to include the spa pool, with changing rooms, toilets and showers to sit alongside their £1.2million home.
The couple, who are still cashing in on Captain Tom by using his memory to push the sale of their seven-bed £2.25million pad, were found to have raked in tens of thousands.
Hannah previously spoke about the ordeal in a bombshell interview with TalkTV’s Piers Morgan and admitted to pocketing money from the £39million NHS fund-raising veteran.
She revealed they kept £800,000 from the three books her dad had written - claiming he had wanted them to keep the profits.
Other controversies include her £18,000 payment to attend the Captain Tom awards - and only donating £2,000 of it to his charity.
The veteran’s daughter also was paid the large sum to attend the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards in 2021.