Company boss convicted after refusing TPR info and threatening its staff

'Leave me alone or I will retaliate'

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The chief executive of a packaging company has been convicted of refusing to give information to The Pensions Regulator (TPR) and lambasted for 'intolerable' behaviour towards the watchdog's staff.

The regulator said Thomas Christopher Wrigley - who was both the chief executive and major shareholder of Discovery Flexibles Limited as well as being the chair of trustees for the company's pension scheme - repeatedly refused to comply with TPR's requests for information in connection with an investigation into how the scheme was being run. TPR had been tipped off by a whistleblower that Wrigley, in his role as chair of trustees, was considering investing more than £1.2m of pension scheme funds in Discovery Flexibles. The watchdog said there are restrictions on the proportion of an o...

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