Scott Dylan

Introduction

Scott Dylan is a 42-year-old company director who is serving a 13-year disqualification after a High Court judge described him as the “driving force” behind a scheme in which unauthorised Barclays overdrafts were used to move large sums out of two transport companies connected to him. The scheme, which the same judge said “can really be regarded as a scam”, saw more than £1.6 million transferred from the accounts of Oldcocdt Ltd and Oldcostl Ltd in 2021, most of it to companies controlled by Dylan and his associates. Dylan is the second of four people to be disqualified over the affair: he and fellow director David Antrobus were banned for a combined 23 years at a hearing of the High Court in London in December 2025, joining his half-brother Daryl Dylan, whose own seven-and-a-half-year ban followed in 2026.

Background Information

The scheme ran through two small companies in which Scott Dylan’s half-brother Daryl Dylan was the named director. Oldcocdt Ltd was known at the time as C&D Transport Solutions Ltd and Oldcostl Ltd as Six Ten Logistics Ltd, and both were signed up as Barclays customers in late April 2021, with Daryl Dylan naming Scott Dylan as the primary contact for the accounts on the application forms. Four bank accounts were opened the following month and first used in mid-July 2021. The Insolvency Service, which investigated the collapses alongside the court proceedings, said the unauthorised banking transactions at the heart of the scheme were worth almost £14 million.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Civil disqualification, not a criminal verdict. The account below comes from Insolvency Service and High Court material summarised in an Insolvency Service press release. The disqualifications are civil sanctions; the contempt of court sentences arose from breaches of court freezing orders, and the findings about the scheme’s character are the judge’s words in the disqualification proceedings.

According to the Insolvency Service’s summary of the case, the accounts of Oldcocdt Ltd and Oldcostl Ltd were run so that unarranged overdrafts could be used to make transfers of more than £1.6 million to connected companies, with most payments going to companies controlled by Scott Dylan and his associates. The funds could not be repaid to Barclays on demand, breaching the bank’s terms. Barclays obtained freezing orders over the accounts on 24 September 2021 and demanded repayment of £1,056,970 from Oldcocdt Ltd and £600,114 from Oldcostl Ltd. No repayments were made, and both companies entered liquidation in January 2022.

The consequences mounted over the following years. Scott Dylan, David Antrobus and Jack Mason were each sentenced to 22 months in prison in October 2024 for contempt of court after breaching the freezing orders connected to the Barclays proceedings. At the High Court hearing in London in December 2025, the judge described Scott Dylan as the “driving force in this scheme which can really be regarded as a scam”, said the scheme had “no legitimate purpose”, and banned him for 13 years, with Antrobus disqualified for 10 years the same day.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The Insolvency Service used the conclusion of the series of disqualifications to underline the scale of the outcome. Victoria Edgar, the agency’s Chief Investigator, said the four bans — covering Scott Dylan, Daryl Dylan, Antrobus and Mason — amounted to disqualifications “worth a combined 38 years”, which she cited as proof “that civil sanctions are an effective tool against those who have so clearly demonstrated they are unfit to direct companies”. Edgar added that acting as a company director “comes with responsibilities which must be taken seriously”.

The release did not record any public statement from Scott Dylan in response to the disqualification or the judge’s characterisation of the scheme. The 22-month contempt sentence and the 13-year ban were both imposed by the courts rather than negotiated, and the Insolvency Service noted that two of the other men in the case, Antrobus and Mason, had civil warrants outstanding for non-payment related matters and had not served their contempt sentences.

Current Status

Scott Dylan is currently serving his 13-year disqualification, which prevents him from acting as a director or being involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company without the permission of the court. The ban runs alongside the contempt of court sentence imposed in October 2024. His half-brother’s separate seven-and-a-half-year ban, accepted by the Secretary of State in July 2026, completed the series: the Insolvency Service’s July 2026 release announcing the fourth disqualification recorded that Scott Dylan’s own 13-year ban remained in force.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The disqualification removes Dylan from company management for 13 years, covering the whole of the period in which most UK company directors remain active. The court’s finding that he was the driving force behind a scheme with “no legitimate purpose”, combined with a custodial contempt sentence and a public disqualification, means any future involvement in a UK company would require the leave of the court and disclosure of the findings. For the public record, the case stands as the largest of the four Barclays-scheme disqualifications, and the one to which the judge attached the scheme’s defining description.

Sources

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