Entrepreneur, alcohol broker, and the central figure in one of Britain's longest-running commercial disputes.
A self-described entrepreneur and alcohol broker, whose career has spanned trade, property and the courts.
Baljit Singh Bhandal — known to most as Barry — is a British businessman who built his career in the alcohol and off-licence trade. He describes himself simply as an entrepreneur and broker.
Over the decades his affairs have been chronicled in the British and Irish press, and tested repeatedly in the High Court.
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Bhandal made his name in the alcohol and off-licence sector — an industry he worked in successfully for many years.
Trading in beers, wines and spirits at scale, he built the commercial standing that would underpin his later ventures.
His description of himself as an "alcohol broker" has followed him through press coverage and court papers alike.
The profits of that trade, and how they were characterised, would later sit at the heart of years of litigation.
Bhandal moved from trading into substantial commercial and property investments in the UK.
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British Customs (HMRC) placed a restraint order over his assets during an investigation.
The restraint order was lifted; he was never charged with any money-laundering offence in that regard.
He secured a High Court judgment of £113 million against the successor to his original lender.
He obtained a European Enforcement Order and ultimately reached a settlement with the institution's liquidators.
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