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Chris Atkins (born Christopher Walsh Atkins) is a British journalist, documentary film maker and best-selling author. He has made several fiction feature films, feature length documentaries and television documentaries, which have received three BAFTA nominations.
Feb 19, 2020 · When UK filmmaker Chris Atkins was sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding HMRC in a film-finance tax scam in July 2016, he was immediately taken to London’s Wandsworth prison,...
Nov 25, 2023 · Atkins, 47, a Bafta-nominated documentary film-maker, got an uncomfortably close-up view of the prison system when he was convicted of tax fraud in 2016. (The case was part of a complex investigation by HMRC into tax loopholes in the British film industry, whereby investors claimed tax rebates against losses.
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Jan 6, 2021 · W hen Bafta-nominated filmmaker Chris Atkins entered into a dodgy fundraising scheme for one of his documentary films, the scam ended in a nightmare. He was arrested, tried and sentenced to...
Jun 1, 2020 · Chris Atkins, a successful English filmmaker, got involved in a tax-dodging scheme to finance a documentary. He was sentenced to five years in prison, and was sent to Wandsworth — one of the...
Author: Chris Atkins, filmmaker, journalist and author . Most ex-jailbirds want to quickly forget their time behind bars, but I didn’t have that option. I’d got sentenced to five years for tax fraud in 2016, after getting involved in a dodgy scheme to fund my film.
Sep 25, 2020 · Chris Atkins takes a fresh delivery of books into Brixton prison. By Paul Bignell. September 25, 2020 7:00 am. Chris Atkins didn’t expect to find himself back in prison quite so soon. Visceral...
