Firm ‘made threats and intidimated customers’
A MANCHESTER-based company which offered to manage the ‘Google My Business’ (formerly ‘Google Places’) listings of its customers, has been placed into provisional liquidation following an investigation by Company Investigations, part of the Insolvency Service.
Online Platform Management Consultants (OPMC) had been the subject of a significant volume of complaints during its two-and-a-half year trading history, including from Google itself, which included allegations that it was misrepresenting itself as Google or an affiliate of the company and that it subjected its customers to threats and intimidation in order to collect funds it claimed were owed to it.
The company operated out of trading premises at 23 New Mount Street, Manchester, from where it cold called prospective customers.
The provisional liquidation took effect on February 10. The role of the provisional liquidator is to protect assets in the possession or under the control of the company pending the determination of the petition.
It also has the power to investigate the affairs of the company to protect assets including any third party or trust money or assets in the possession of or under the control of the company.
The case is now subject to High Court action and no further information will be made available until the petition to wind up the company is heard in the High Court in Manchester on April 13.
