povilas bartkevicius, a model and a chef. we just want to ask you where the money went? what money? the money from the bounce back loans. your name is on a company, bart solution, yes? and that received £10 million in your name. yeah, your name. i don t know anything. if i had some money or 10,000, i didn t work twojobs here. - povilas tells us he has no idea his name was being used in this way. next, we tracked down yekaterina. nice to meet you. yeah, nice to meet you. i ask her about the company in her name. but i don t know anything, and you should ask other people. no comments, only with my lawyer. we have no idea if either
on day one, day two, day three and off they trott. where does that leave the taxpayer? stuffed for billions of pounds. back in vilnius, we switch targets. remember this guy, povilas? well, here s the thing. he was director of one of the gangs dodgy companies. from social media, we know he s a chef and a pretty good one, at that. he won awards at the restaurant where he used to work. but we also know the company in his name received loads of that bounce back loan money.
anything like it. it is the biggest one i know of. it s the biggest one i ve seen, and it s probably going to be the biggest one we will see for a long time. when covid shut down the economy, the chancellor announced the bounce back loan scheme. well, today, we announced a brand new loan scheme. £50,000 on offerfor small firms with few questions asked. the gang used a network of bogus companies to make hundreds of claims. ringleaders artem terzyan and deivis grochiatskij received long prison sentences. they have strong links to lithuania, and we ve learned that directors of two of the companies used in the fraud are still living there. and here they are yekaterina kobrina and povilas bartkevicius, a model and a chef. we just want to ask you where the money went? what money?
i don t know anything. if i had some money or 10,000k. i didn t work two jobs here. ijust married two months ago. i worked without weekends to buy everything. for my wedding. povilas tells us he has no idea his name was being used in this way. i really don t know what to make of that. he seems very genuine. he seems very honest. i don t think he was lying to us. but as far as he s concerned, that is the first time he s ever heard that his name is connected to the theft of £10 million now he s off to work.
doubt they knew what was going on. why do you think that? if somebody comes to me with something that seems too good to be true, then in the back of my mind, i m going to be thinking there s something not quite right about this. say hello to yekaterina kobrina. yekaterina was the director of one of the key companies involved in the scheme. her name was on all sorts of documents. we don t know whether she ever lived in london, but looking through her facebook profile, we know she came here and that s just about 200 metres from where the gang was living. she looks like any other tourist smiling for the camera. but was she doing something more thanjust sightseeing? and this is povilas bartkevicius, a chef by trade and director of one of the main companies involved.