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Chris Atkins (born Christopher Walsh Atkins) is a British journalist, documentary film maker and best-selling author. He has made several fiction feature films, feature length documentaries and television documentaries, which have received three BAFTA nominations.
Feb 19, 2020 · When UK filmmaker Chris Atkins was sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding HMRC in a film-finance tax scam in July 2016, he was immediately taken to London’s Wandsworth prison, where...
Jun 1, 2020 · Chris Atkins, a successful English filmmaker, got involved in a tax-dodging scheme to finance a documentary. He was sentenced to five years in prison, and was sent to Wandsworth — one of the...
Jan 6, 2021 · When a fundraising scam went wrong for filmmaker Chris Atkins, he was sentenced to five years in prison. His new book reveals what life is really like on the inside, writes David Lister
Feb 20, 2020 · In June 2016, the filmmaker Chris Atkins was convicted of fraud after he submitted false invoices for his documentary about the British media, allowing its investors to dodge taxes. He was...
Nov 25, 2023 · Atkins, 47, a Bafta-nominated documentary film-maker, got an uncomfortably close-up view of the prison system when he was convicted of tax fraud in 2016. (The case was part of a complex investigation by HMRC into tax loopholes in the British film industry, whereby investors claimed tax rebates against losses.
Sep 25, 2020 · Chris Atkins didn’t expect to find himself back in prison quite so soon. Visceral memories began flooding back as he wandered around the grounds of an open prison in Suffolk.
