Checked and excluded

This page is not a defence of anyone. It is a record of what was checked and set aside, so that everything published elsewhere on this site can be relied on.

Common names produce false matches. A registry search on “Madnani” or “DSA Investments” returns companies belonging to other people, and an archive that printed them would be worthless within a week. Each record below surfaced during research, looked like a match, and was excluded after the ownership or the identity was read.

Nothing here bears on what he did or did not do. It bears on which documents are his.

DSA Investments Limited (OE013963) · not his

Madnani’s profiles name DSA Investments as the firm he founded and leads. The UK Register of Overseas Entities holds a DSA INVESTMENTS LIMITED, number OE013963, registered 17 January 2023, correspondence address Ground Floor Plaza House, Admiral Park, St Peter Port, Guernsey.

It is not his. The register records one active beneficial owner: the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, the Canadian institutional investor, at 65 Rue Sainte-Anne, Quebec.

The name matches. Nothing else does. This archive nearly recorded it as a confirmation of his firm and did not, and says so here because the near-miss is instructive: an unremarkable name on a register is not evidence of anything until the ownership is read.

SME Capital Limited · name matches, connection unproven

His profiles list a former non-executive directorship at SME Capital UK. Companies House holds two dissolved companies of that exact name - 03920200, dissolved 12 July 2016, and 10265516, dissolved 25 June 2019.

Neither officer list carries his name. This archive has recorded the dissolutions on the entity page as facts about companies of that name, and has not asserted that either is the company he refers to.

“Manoj Madnani” in SEC filings · unrelated

A full-text search of the SEC’s EDGAR system for the exact phrase returns one document: a proxy-voting record filed by Fidelity Investment Trust in August 2010. It has nothing to do with him, and is excluded.

Devindra Madnani · a different person

A Companies House officer search on the surname returns Devindra MADNANI, born September 1990, Indian, resident in Spain, sole director of a dissolved company. Not the subject of this archive.

Companies House namesakes · sixteen affiliations, no matches

Searching the UK register for the remaining entities on his published profiles returns companies whose names partially match and whose businesses plainly do not: Silverbacks Barbers Limited, Palladium Group Limited, Scorpion Drilling Services Limited, Femson International Ltd, Access Citizens Services UK Limited, and others.

None has been connected to him. They are listed here rather than on the entity pages because a partial name match is not a finding, and printing one as though it were would corrupt every other entry on this site.

The standing invitation

If any exclusion on this page is wrong - if one of these records is his, or if a record excluded as a namesake is not - write to the editor. The correction will be made, dated, and left in place.

Contact and procedure are set out under editorial standards.