Visa Scheme: London Mayor and Firm Innotech

visa scheme: But just months after Johnson helped to raise her firm Innotech's profile by giving keynote speeches at two of its first events, Arcuri won a place on a prestigious government-run visa scheme, giving her firm 15,000 in public funds, according to The Guardian. Arcuri, whose flat Johnson reportedly frequented while he was London mayor, beat nearly 2,000 applicants to be among 200 winners of the Sirius scheme run by UK Trade and Investment now the Department for International Trade . The programme requires candidates or their business to have up to 200,000 available for investment, but Companies House records show Innotech has been consistently in the red since it was founded. Jennifer Arcuri, whose company is being investigated over its eligibility for a 100,000 taxpayer-funded grant, spoke publicly of her difficulties in obtaining a visa. Its first accounts in 2014 showed it had minus 41,540 in shareholders' funds. Her latest company, Hacker House, apparently later claimed to have the backing of Prince Andrew for a scheme providing cyber badges for children. The Guardian also understands that Arcuri attended an event hosted at Buckingham Palace by the Duke of York in December 2014. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.