The former Angolan president’s son and a former central banker are suspected of using accounts at HSBC Holdings PLC and Standard Chartered PLC in an attempt to defraud the country’s central bank by transferring $500 million through these U.K.-based lenders, people familiar with the matter said. The prosecutor’s office in Angola said the money was transferred from Angola’s central bank, allegedly to guarantee a $30 billion financing deal, according to a statement posted on the government website Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Conviviality, owner of the Bargain Booze and Wine Rack chains, plans to appoint administrators after it warned on profits, discovered a forgotten tax bill and failed to raise emergency funds, the Financial Times reported. The retailer and wholesaler to pub operations, whose chief executive Diana Hunter stepped down abruptly on March 19, said “the board has resolved to file notice of intention to appoint administrators to the company”. Within the past few weeks, the group has warned on profits twice because of what it said was margin erosion in its wholesale business.

Dominic Chappell, the former bankrupt who bought the failed retailer BHS for £1, is facing a ban on serving as a company director but previous owner Philip Green will avoid a similar fate following an investigation into the chain’s collapse in 2016. The Insolvency Service, a UK government agency, said on Tuesday that it intends to ban Dominic Chappell and three other former BHS directors from serving as company directors for up to 15 years, the Financial Times reported.

A 60-year-old engineering company that was subcontracted by Carillion to work on a school near Liverpool is expected to become the first casualty in the collapsed contractor’s supply chain, the Financial Times reported. About 160 staff at Vaughan Engineering’s three offices in Edinburgh, Warrington and Newcastle are expected to lose their jobs as the company prepares to file for administration. The family-owned business is owed £650,000 for works completed for Carillion. It had also been contracted to complete a further £1.1m of work in the first three months of this year.

Creditors and landlords of New Look overwhelmingly approved the British fashion retailer’s restructuring plan at a meeting on Wednesday, enabling it to stave off a potential fall into administration, the company said. Earlier this month, the chain, owned by South African investment heavyweight Brait and saddled with 1.2 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) of debt, said it would seek creditor approval for a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), Reuters reported.

Bargain Booze’s owner, Conviviality, has made clear it is likely to go bust unless it can raise £125m, as it issued its third profits warning in a month, The Guardian reported. The company, in a stock exchange announcement, said it was holding meetings with investors to raise £125m via a share placing that would help it pay a £30m tax bill due at the end of the month, fund overdue payments to creditors and repay a £30m loan.

Retailer Carpetright has agreed a loan with a shareholder in exchange for new shares to fund the short term running of the company, and may raise another 60 million pounds to try to turn its business around, it said on Wednesday. Shares in the company, which sells floor coverings, were up almost 6 percent at 43 pence at 0819 GMT.

Britain's Financial Reporting Council (FRC) said on Monday it commenced an investigation into the conduct of two former finance directors of bankrupt construction firm Carillion plc, the International New York Times reported on a Reuters story. The FRC in January opened an investigation into KPMG's auditing of the now-collapsed Carillion covering the years 2014 to 2017. The investigation into former group finance directors Richard Adam and Zafar Khan will be conducted under the Accountancy Scheme, FRC said on Monday.

Ukip is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy after it was presented with a legal bill of £175,000 for its part in a libel action involving three Labour MPs in the run up to the 2015 election, The Guardian reported. If the party does not appeal, it must find the cash in the next fortnight, which may leave it unable to field candidates in the local elections in May. The party has been hovering on the edge of insolvency since its support collapsed following the resignation of Nigel Farage as leader after the EU referendum.

Manifest, an adviser to investors that collectively oversee more than £1tn in assets, has gone into administration, the Financial Times reported. Moore Stephens, the accountancy company, has been appointed as the administrator for the UK-based business, which analyses companies on behalf of investors and advises on corporate governance issues. Jeremy Willmont, partner at Moore Stephens and administrator of Manifest, said he was currently looking for a buyer for the proxy voting agency and was in talks with a “number of people”.