Ex-Footballer Gets 8-Year Ban From London Sports Academy

• Kieron Minto-St.Aimie is a former professional footballer who went on to run a sports academy in Brent.
• His company received the £25,000 Covid Bounce Back Loan after he overstated its turnover.
• He was disqualified as a company director for eight years at London’s Royal Courts of Justice.

A former professional footballer has been banned from being a company director for eight years.

Kieron Minto-St.Aimie claimed a £25,000 Covid Bounce Back Loan for the St Aimie’s Sports Academy Community Interest Company in Brent, when it was entitled to much less.

Elizabeth Pigney, Chief Investigator at the Insolvency Service, said: “Kieron Minto-St.Aimie successfully applied for a Covid Bounce Back loan by overstating his company’s turnover.

His eight-year disqualification should serve as a warning to others that the justice system will not allow business owners to make false declarations to obtain funds that were so crucially needed by other small and medium-sized businesses during the pandemic.

The former footballer, aged 35, of Pound Lane in London, began his career at Queens Park Rangers before spells at clubs including Oxford United and Barnet.

He opened St.Aimie’s Sports Academy, on Harlesden Road in Brent, as its sole director in 2016.

Before its closure in January 2023, the academy was known in the local community for providing football coaching and mentoring to children and young people.

In May 2020, Minto-St.Aimie applied for a Covid Bounce Back loan of £25,000.

However, in order to obtain the £25,000 he overstated the company’s turnover by £60,000 as it should have only been entitled to around £10,000 under the scheme based on its actual turnover.

On 6 December 2024, the judge at London’s Royal Courts of Justice disqualified Minto-St.Aimie as a company director for eight years.