Ian Wardle (70), of Bolton, was the CEO and de facto director of the Lifeline Project, a registered charity employing 1,300 employees across 90 sites throughout the country.
Incorporated in 1984, the charity provided drug and alcohol rehabilitation services to over 80,000 people across England and Scotland, including a number of prisoners.
The charity, however, called in insolvency practitioners in March 2017 after it was unable to pay its debts following a financial shortfall of 1.4 million. Just over a year later, in June 2018, the charity was placed in voluntary liquidation by the administrators.
The administrators report to the Insolvency Service triggered an investigation and enquiries revealed that, between August 2015 a…
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