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Carillion ex-director gets banned for 11 years – here's what it means for people whose companies get wrecked

  • Written by: John Tribe, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
Carillion ex-director gets banned for 11 years – here's what it means for people whose companies get wreckedZafar Khan, the former finance director, has been disqualified.

Zafar Khan, the former finance director of collapsed mega-contractor Carillion, has been banned from being a company director for 11 years. It is the longest ban imposed on an executive of a listed company by the Insolvency Service (IS) in 60 years, raising the prospect of lengthy...

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