Lifting the corporate veil

[motorbiking]

Baroness Mone among individuals sued to recover PPE Medpro millions

The Baroness and her husband Doug Barrowman are among individuals being sued in a bid to recover some of the money owed to the government by the business.

www.bbc.co.uk

Government attempts to go after directors by trying to lift the corporate veil.

Seizing their personal assets directly from the company’s former dividends is going to be extremely difficult.

 

[Brigadier]

Seizing their personal assets directly from the company’s former dividends is going to be extremely difficult.

Perhaps.
Does that make it the "wrong" thing to do though?

 

[blup]

Seems a fruitless waste of taxpayers money, just change the law to give far more powers to make directors personally liable for specified wrongdoing.

 

[Brigadier]

Seems a fruitless waste of taxpayers money, just change the law to give far more powers to make directors personally liable for specified wrongdoing.

Which is what I was leading to.

Unless the OP thinks it is wrong to pursue the personal assets of directors who have been found to have profited from their nefarious actions.