Monday, 7 October 2019
BORIS & JENNIFER ARCURI
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| JENNIFER ARCURI - BORIS JOHNSON |
7TH OCTOBER 2019
FOA Layla Moran MP – Lib-Dem - at Westminster
Dear Ms Moran,
The BBC reported that you recently raised questions in The House about Boris and Ms Arcuri. As a once time audit manager and advisor to about 500 Start-Ups /Oxford Research Science Park, Southbank Technopark, Innovation centres, etc.
I became intrigued and have just checked at Companies House. Jennifer Arcuri seems to be as bold as brass – a point for her straightforwardness – but the two companies are what we would have called “Funny-Money” companies, and so are worth examining. They both seem to be (1) insolvent – and (2) to operate from Macclesfield /Prestbury, Cheshire.
These two facts would usually disqualify them from London /Innovation Grants. Curiouser and curiouser. I thought it might interest you.
Two of my CCs friends above are in your constituency. I am next door in East Oxford, but we have joined the Lib-Dems and will vote for the Stop Brexit party.
Best wishes – Noel Hodson
Noel Hodson - Director
Tax Reconciliations, Oxford UK,
Tel +44 1865 (0)760994 Mobile 07713 681216
Summary and Companies House data - 7th Oct 2019
(CHECK WITH A LARGE AUDIT COMPANY OR COMPANY LAWYER)
Below are the Companies House documents for Jennifer Arcuri’s two companies: Hacker House Ltd Inc 9 July 2015 – 1st Director Jennifer Arcuri - Occupation “Ethical Hacker “ – a £100 off the shelf company and The Innotech Network Ltd. Formed 28 Feb 2013 – a £100 Off-the-Shelf company 1st Director Jennifer Arcuri.
Both companies traded from Mathew Hickey’s address/es (he moved twice) in Macclesfield Cheshire. (So I don’t think they qualify for London grants/funds etc.)
Most of the activity is at/from 9 Bollin Mews, Prestbury, Cheshire ( was this rented at £1,400 pm?).
FUNNY – MONEY ACCOUNTS:
Innotech Network is a “Technology and New Media Company” – Last Accounts Y/E March 2018 show it £356,000 (amended to £289,000) in debt. (i.e. insolvent)
Hacker House Ltd Last Accounts Y/E July 2018 show it £715,000 in debt – BUT of that £713,000 is owed to Jennifer Arcuri. – (so also insolvent)
Because the two companies were /are insolvent – they would not normally qualify for Innovation Grants /funds.
Co-Director in Hacker House Ltd is Mr Mathew James Hickey “Cyber Consultant”. British - He lived in Macclesfield Cheshire then moved to a £400K Town House, 9 Bollin Mews, in Prestbury – the football-millionaires’ village. 9 Bollin Mews may be rented.
They both moved to the USA in September 2019.
The two companies re-registered at the same time, Sept 2019, moving to an accommodation address in Fleet St.
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25 September 2019
Cheshire address at centre of Boris Johnson Hacker House controversy
A house in Cheshire is at the centre of a controversy over the friendship between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and model turned businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri.
A £100,000 grant was made in February this year to Arcuri’s training company Hacker House, which was registered at 9 Bollin Mews in Prestbury, near Macclesfield, up until this afternoon.
Last weekend The Sunday Times reported that Arcuri had joined trade missions led by Johnson and received thousands of pounds in sponsorship grants when he was London Mayor, between 2008 and 2016.
The Hacker House registered address - and the correspondence address of Arcuri, one of two directors of the company, along with Matthew Hickey - was changed shortly after 3pm this afternoon, following questions in the House of Commons. The Companies House registered address was changed to one on Fleet Street in London.
Lib Dem MP Layla Moran, asking an urgent question, said the government's Cyber Security Immediate Impact Fund - under which the grant to Hacker House had been made - was meant to be for UK-based initiatives only.
“We now know that Hacker House is not based in the UK," Moran told MPs. "The Sunday Times reports that its owner, Jennifer Arcuri, moved back to the USA in June 2018. These grants weren't open for application until November.
"The registered address of the company is, in fact, a house in Cheshire and the current occupant, apparently, sends any post addressed to Miss Arcuri back to sender."
Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, added: "As I understand it, Hacker House is a company headquartered in California. The principal owners of the company live in the United States.
"The company claims to have employees in London but refuses to reveal who they are or where they are. It is very difficult to see how the company fulfilled the criteria for these grants."
However, junior minister Matt Warman insisted Johnson had "no role whatsoever" in awarding a grant to Hacker House. He said the government has launched a "review" of the £100,000 award made in February this year, but insisted it had been an "open, transparent and competitive process".
So far, £47,000 out of the £100,000 grant, has been paid to Hacker House under the government's Cyber Security Immediate Impact Fund, with the remainder put on hold until the review has been completed.
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