A FATHER and daughter have appeared at Durham Crown Court charged with contravention of the Company Directors’ Disqualification Act.
Geoffrey Auston, 59, faces to nine counts alleging participation in a fraudulent business, being a disqualified person managing a company, contravening a directors' disqualification order and dishonestly making false representation to make gain.
It relates to his alleged illegal involvement in businesses linked to the private mining industry while banned from acting as a company director.
His daughter, 23-year-old Sophie Auston, denied a single charge of participation in a fraudulent business.
No pleas were heard.
The case was transferred to Teesside Crown Court where a provisional trial, of up to two weeks’ length, has been pencilled in to start on January 13 next year.
Geoffrey Auston, of Stoneybeck, Bishop Middleham, County Durham, was remanded in custody and Sophie Auston, of Alnwick Drive, Spennymoor, was bailed to next appear at court for a plea hearing in the case, on August 23.
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