Probe: Boadicea the Victorious perfume sells for almost £1,000 a bottle
The former boss of a company that supplies perfume to Harrods is under investigation for selling products to Russia.
David Crisp, the ex-chief executive of Boadicea the Victorious, whose bottles of scent sell for almost £1,000 at the high-end department store, is suspected of sanction breaches by the taxman.
Export bans were put in place after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and this is HM Revenue & Customs first public criminal probe for sanctions breaches in the two-and-a-half years since.
Court papers reveal Crisp was accused of intentionally breaching these sanctions up to last summer.
He was removed as a director of Boadicea in October and chairman David Garofalo has taken legal action to keep him out. Garofalo was granted a temporary injunction to oust Crisp and now a legal tussle between the pair continues.
Lawyers for Crisp insisted he did not knowingly trade in breach of the ban and made an innocent mistake. And his legal team intends to appeal a decision to oust him as the boss ‘at the earliest opportunity’.
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