Duncan Paul, the former director of CRDNN Limited, a company notorious for making millions of unsolicited cold calls, has been banned from running a business for eight years. This decision follows a similar ban imposed on Paul’s co-director, Stephen Foote, in January 2023. The bans were enforced due to their roles in managing a firm that made over 63 million nuisance calls within just a few months in 2018.
CRDNN Limited, based in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, was involved in making automated calls across the UK, pitching services ranging from window scrappage to boiler sales. Notably, some calls falsely claimed affiliation with Scottish and UK government energy-saving schemes. In one severe incident, the company’s calls congested the phone lines of a Network Rail control centre near Fort William, posing significant safety risks.
