“Gofer Mining’s accounts are on another level,” said Dan Neidle, the former senior tax lawyer and founder of the Tax Policy Associates thinktank, who has been investigating the extent of fake companies and falsified accounts lodged at Companies House.
However, a detailed analysis of accounts filed at Companies House relating to Gofer Mining, for which he is registered as a director and chief financial officer, suggests something more troubling – namely, evidence those accounts have been falsified.
The Observer has learned that in 2019 the British Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce contacted Companies House to warn it about Gofer Mining’s activities in Ukraine.
Roerich, one of several Gofer Mining directors, said he owned “less than 1%” of the company and disputed that its accounts had been falsified.
Neidle discovered that Gofer Mining’s most recent accounts were audited by a company called Smith Barclay LLP – a firm that links back to Roerich himself.
