A man and a woman from West Yorkshire have been arrested as part of an HMRC investigation into a suspected £3.4 million Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) fraud.

HMRC’s Taxpayer Protection Taskforce officers executed a search warrant on 28 April 2021 in the Bradford area and arrested a 35-year-old man and 36-year-old woman.

Both individuals were also arrested in relation to a suspected multi-million-pound tax fraud and have been released under investigation.

More than £6 million held in bank accounts controlled by the pair have been frozen by HMRC.

Janet Alexander, taxpayer protection taskfo...