Rob Cross breaks silence on five-year ban and issues groveling apology

Rob Cross has issued a grovelling public apology while breaking his silence on his ban from being a director due to £450,000 in unpaid tax. In recent weeks, it emerged that the former darts world champion's company, Rob Cross Darts Limited, had failed to settle an eye-watering tax debt.

The company, which he created eight years ago to receive his earnings and prize money, owed £450,000 in tax when it went into liquidation. Cross withdrew over £300,000, which should have been paid to HMRC and other creditors, between March 2020 and November 2023.

He now faces a five-year disqualification from being a director, a ban that will last until June 2030.

Cross entered an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) last year to start to pay off some of the fortune that he owes the tax man.

And Voltage has finally spoken out about the ordeal, issuing an apology while accepting his expensive mistake was bound to tarnish his reputation.

"It's not my proudest moment of my life. I've done wrong, and I'll hold my hands up to it," Cross explained ahead of his US Darts Masters defence in New York.

"Going down this route with the IVA to pay the money back means I'm not running. I suppose you make mistakes in life. I'm willing to correct them; it's going to tarnish me, but I'm going to do the right thing.

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