Prince Andrew Reported To The POLICE

Prince Andrew has been accused of registering a corporation under a fictitious identity and has been referred to the police.

The Duke of York, 64, used the alias ‘Andrew Inverness’ when in 2002 he set up the business Naples Gold Limited with sports retail mogul Johan Eliasch. 

The chief executive of Republic, a campaign organisation opposed to the monarchy, Graham Smith, has now complained to Scotland Yard, accusing the prince of using misleading information in paperwork submitted to Companies House.

To decide whether any more action is necessary, the Metropolitan Police are now reviewing the report.

Mr Smith told The Telegraph that Andrew ‘must be held to the highest standards’ and ‘the royals appear to believe they can act with impunity’.

Andrew has used the alias for four companies registered at Companies House.

It is believed to have emanated from one of his less well-known titles, the Earl of Inverness, which was given to him by Elizabeth II in 1986 when he married Sarah Ferguson.

Mr Smith said: ‘The apparent filing of false information with Companies House may seem trivial, but the UK faces serious issues of fraud committed in this way. While no such fraud is alleged here, surely Andrew must be held to the highest standards.’

The Duke of York has been approached by MailOnline for comment.

On Sunday it appeared that the firm managing Andrew’s private investments had closed down.

Urramoor Limited, which Andrew had ‘significant control over’, has applied to be struck off and dissolved, documents filed to Companies House last week show.

Only a year has passed since a mysterious donor saved the investment firm.

Urramoor somehow secured £210,000 worth of funding in the form of non-redeemable shares in December 2023, documents filed at the time revealed.

The company was £208,000 in the red before it received the money from an unknown source.

Prince Andrew originally set up the investment fund under the name HRH Andrew Inverness in 2013.

It was established about 18 months after his trade envoy role was taken off him due to his association with Jeffrey Epstein.

However, the company failed to make any returns in the nine sets of accounts it filed since its creation.

The decision to close Urramoor down was signed by the company’s director Arthur Lancaster on January 3. 

The announcement comes just days after it was revealed that more than £230,000 had been pulled from Prince Andrew’s Dragon’s Den-style initiative Pitch@Palace – which is also run by Mr Lancaster.

I can’t stand the man, but then I can’t abide anybody in the Royal Family, but saying that, he did file his name as HRH Andrew Inverness, under his title HRH Earl of Inverness, so it’s a bit of a stretch to say that it’s a crime.

Companies House should perhaps instead concentrate on requesting actual documentation of people setting up companies and their current addresses because at present people set up bogus companies all the time and nothing is done about it.

Of course, one of the ways the wealthy stay wealthy is to evade taxes. Of course, it’s all a fiddle, but seemingly legal. All this has done is waste money and given a bitter man a little press – like Andrew or not, there’s no case here, and the police are now using resources that could be used elsewhere.