Jack Mason

Introduction

Jack Mason is a 36-year-old businessman who was banned from acting as a company director for seven and a half years in March 2026 after signing a disqualification undertaking over his role in a scheme involving unauthorised banking transactions worth almost £14 million. Mason is the last of four people to be disqualified over the affair, in which unarranged Barclays overdrafts were used to move more than £1.6 million out of two transport companies in 2021. Like his co-respondents Scott Dylan and David Antrobus, Mason was sentenced to 22 months in prison in October 2024 for contempt of court after breaching freezing orders connected to the Barclays proceedings — a sentence the Insolvency Service recorded in 2026 as still unserved, with a civil warrant outstanding.

Background Information

The scheme ran through Oldcocdt Ltd and Oldcostl Ltd, companies whose Barclays accounts were opened in May 2021 under the names C&D Transport Solutions Ltd and Six Ten Logistics Ltd. The accounts carried transfers to connected companies from mid-July 2021 until September of that year, when Barclays obtained freezing orders and demanded repayment of more than £1.65 million across the two companies. Neither company repaid, and both entered liquidation in January 2022. The Insolvency Service investigated the collapses and reported the court outcomes in a July 2026 release announcing the disqualification of the fourth and final participant, Daryl Dylan.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Undertaking, not a contested trial. Mason’s ban is a disqualification undertaking — a legally binding agreement in which a director agrees to be disqualified without disputing certain facts — accepted after the court proceedings against the scheme’s participants had concluded. The contempt sentence arose from breaches of the freezing orders, which are court enforcement matters rather than criminal convictions.

The Insolvency Service’s summary records that Mason appeared in the case alongside Scott Dylan and David Antrobus, the men the High Court disqualified in December 2025 for terms of 13 and 10 years, with the judge calling Dylan the “driving force” behind what he said “can really be regarded as a scam”. All three men — Mason, Dylan and Antrobus — were sentenced to 22 months in prison in October 2024 for contempt of court after breaching the freezing orders obtained by Barclays.

Mason’s own disqualification followed in March 2026, when he signed the seven-and-a-half-year undertaking. By the time of the Insolvency Service’s July 2026 release, the agency recorded that Mason, like Antrobus, had a civil warrant outstanding and had not served his contempt sentence, and that he had been declared bankrupt in August 2025.

Public Reaction and Consequences

Victoria Edgar, the Insolvency Service’s Chief Investigator, said the four disqualifications totalled 38 years: “We have now secured director disqualifications worth a combined 38 years against both Dylans, Antrobus and Mason, proving that civil sanctions are an effective tool against those who have so clearly demonstrated they are unfit to direct companies.” Edgar added that directorship “comes with responsibilities which must be taken seriously” and that Mason’s co-respondents had failed to exercise the care, skill and diligence expected of a director responsible for a company’s affairs.

The release did not record any public statement from Mason about the undertaking, the contempt sentence or the bankruptcy. His ban, accepted without a contested hearing, completed the series of enforcement outcomes against the scheme’s participants.

Current Status

Mason’s seven-and-a-half-year disqualification, effective from March 2026, prevents him from being involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company without the permission of the court. His 22-month contempt sentence remains unserved, with the Insolvency Service noting the outstanding civil warrant in July 2026, and his August 2025 bankruptcy remains on the public record. He is the only one of the four participants whose ban came by undertaking rather than court order or accepted undertaking after trial proceedings.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The undertaking bars Mason from UK company management into the 2030s, and the outstanding warrant leaves the contempt sentence available to be activated at any time. With a bankruptcy, an unserved custodial sentence and a published disqualification all attached to his name, any attempt to return to company life would require the court’s leave and would carry the full record of the Barclays proceedings with it.

Sources

• The Insolvency Service / GOV.UK, “Fourth company director disqualified for role in £13.9 million Barclays ‘scam’,” 27 July 2026 — source