Olivia Fagan

A seemingly fraudulent British company that has raised £1.4 million from investors to 'clean up the world's oceans' has belatedly filed its annual accounts to stave off forced dissolution. Ocean Polymers Ltd. filed its 2021 accounts two months' late on April 1st - one day after OffshoreAlert asked the firm's principals about a compulsory strike-off action by the Registrar of Companies.

Undeterred by fraud charges on which he is due to be tried in England next month, U.K. national Simon Hooper, who is part of an international gang of serial fraudsters previously exposed by OffshoreAlert, recently became a director of eight British firms.