The former owner of Kingston’s Gala Bingo hall, who was fined £45,000 for destroying the floor of the historic building, has been declared bankrupt.

An order against Franco Lumba was filed at the High Court last month – days after the 45-year-old pleading guilty to executing work or alterations to a Grade II listed building.

He had been ordered to pay almost £75,000 in fines and court costs – and may now have to sell off some of his luxury assets in order to pay back his creditors.

A bankruptcy petition was launched by Abbeyview Services, a Hertfordshire-based carpentry firm which carried out work at a property owned by Mr Lumba in Leicester Square.

A worker at the company said they believed Mr Lumba intended to turn the venue into a nightclub – but the project was never completed and the company was never paid.

At Croydon Crown Court in April, where he pleaded guilty to altering the bingo hall, it was heard that Mr Lumba, of St Margaret’s Road, Twickenham, has £5.6m tied up in properties across London, as well as a number of bank accounts, a company in Spain and a motor yacht.