Daniel Sawrij

Daniel 'Danny' Sawrij (born 22 June 1969) is the managing director of the Leo Group, a waste recycling and animal by-products company. He took over the company in 1988 from Margaret and Leo Sawrij, his mother and father.

Early life Sawrij is the youngest of six children. He was educated at Halifax Catholic High School, but left at the age of 14 to work on his father's farm, which bought and sold cattle and bred mink and foxes for the fur industry. He met his wife, Joanne, at the age of 17, with whom he now has three children and several grandkids.

Controversy In May 2013, Sawrij was fined £300 plus £150 costs by Kirklees Magistrates Court after he was found guilty of failing to ensure that his lorry drivers had properly logged their hours. Earlier in May 2013, Sawrij admitted 134 charges of failing to ensure lorry drivers logged their hours while he was director of Alba Transport, which was part of the Leo Group, but is now in liquidation. During a two-month investigation period which involved 44 vehicles, 2,000 hours were wrongly recorded. The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency uncovered the failing after it began investigating two years earlier. Sawrij had a further eight charges put to him linked to not releasing paperwork when requested, which he also admitted.