Claims faced by Sir Bradley Wiggins’s estate have doubled to almost £2 million in his ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. The 2012 Tour de France winner’s company, Wiggins Rights Limited, entered voluntary liquidation in 2020, with the former cyclist declared bankrupt in June this year. At the time, Wiggins’s liquidators, MHA, claimed his company owed £979,953.53 to creditors.
This figure has since increased to £1,976,157.73, in a “revised uplifted claim” by the liquidation firm.
Georgina Eason, insolvency practitioner at MHA, wrote: “During the prior reporting period, I received response from third parties regarding access to the Company’s Books and Records and have conducted interviews of key personnel. As a result of these investigations, I have been able to substantiate the increased claim within the Director’s [Wiggins’s] bankruptcy proceedings (increased to the sum…