This blog is aimed at the leisure & hospitality industries in the United Kingdom.
The purpose of this blog is to warn you about a “company” advertising and trading under the name of London Refurbishing.
London Refurbishing is being run by Nicholas Wattiez, a con-man who is a repeat offender in fraud and has been convicted multiple times. In particular he targets the leisure and hospitality sector and “sells” used and refurbished furniture and catering equipment.
His previous company was called Albermarle Wholesale, but that was shut down several years ago, it seems now he is at again under a new Name.
A quick Google search for the name Nicholas Wattiez should be evidence enough to back up this warning, try it and you were find articles about him like the following;
Peterborough Telegraph:
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/latest-news/conman-ran-business-scam-from-prison-cell-1-116688
Wisbeech Standard
http://www.wisbechstandard.co.uk/news/fenland_convicted_fraudster_nicholas_wattiez_gets_further_5_years_for_scam_he_ran_from_prison_1_386944
Company Check
https://companycheck.co.uk/director/900720767/MR-NICHOLAS-FRANCIS-WATTIEZ/summary
Company Check
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/00998168/NICHOLAS-WATTIEZ-TRANSPORT-LIMITED/summary
The Caterer Magazine
https://www.thecaterer.com/articles/39717/fraudster-skips-bail-and-gets-eight-year-sentence
Blog on Albermarle Wholesale
http://albermarlewholesale.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/nick-wattiez-ta-albermarle-wholesale.html
The new “company” has been advertising in trade magazines, if you look a little closer in to the adverts and the website www.londonrefurbishing.com you will find that the phone number and the postal address go towards a forwarding company called British Monomarks http://www.britishmonomarks.co.uk/. Whilst it is not illegal to use forwarding services such as this, it is further proof that Mr Wattiez is trying hard not to be found. For someone claiming to have huge stocks of furniture for sale don’t you find it a bit odd that he has no address where you can go see this stock for yourself before you part with thousands of pounds?
You can also tie Mr Wattiez to the company London Refurbishing by doing a simple whois domain search. Visit a site like https://who.is/ and search for the domain: http://www.londonrefurbishing.com, and you will see that the person who registered the address is indeed Nicholas Wattiez
Heres the whois information for londonrefurbishing.com
https://who.godaddy.com/whoisstd.aspx?domain=londonrefurbishing.com&prog_id=GoDaddy&k=2j5JMgaRb0Phzd8dBggZBepDEu%2flrsLVudEz3e0ljHik%2fTW%2fqoVXSdRmO95zK1XJI%2fb8FintidU%3d
A reminder of the previous company they were trading as;
Valley House Trading 