The CEO of UK-based medical recruitment firm Primary Care People, Tawhid Juneja, has pleaded not guilty to assault and coercive and controlling behavior, reports Hertfordshire-based newspaper The Comet.

Juneja was arrested after a disturbance on Stevenage, Hertfordshire on 1 November and charged with two counts of assaulting his wife by beating her. He was also charged with coercive and controlling behaviour towards his wife from December 2015 to November 2018 – namely assaults, threats of violence and punishment for minor infractions. He has now pleaded not guilty to all counts of assault. Juneja’s brother Omar was also charged with assaulting another woman on the same location and date.

Primary Care People is listed as a member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. In 2016, Tawhid Juneja was named FSB Hertfordshire’s Business Person of the Year. In 2017, Primary Care People was bought out of administration by Watford recruitment firm McGinley Group. The company had fallen into administration and had failed to pay its locum GPs and nurses. After the buyout McGinley agreed to pay the sum owed to GPs and locums. Primary Care People did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Staffing Industry Analysts.

Update: The REC has informed SIA that Juneja stepped down as CEO from the company in July 2018.