Good morning,
I am in true Cyril Fletcher style indebted to HH reader and gentleman Tweeter, @RicciAshoori who has brought to my attention a fascinating twist in the whole Arry Redschnapps & HMRC fiasco.
Some of the information I can share with you is taken from a web site called http://thestory.ie/ a site with a tag line of ‘in search of transparency’. Well if this article is anything to go by they are very close to earning their Junior X-Ray Specs Badge.
The information I’m unable share with you are documents that are probably still subject to a Court Order issued by Southwark Crown Court. So what I’ll do for clarity is simply lift salient chunks of the thestory.ie article and if you want to go a hunting for more it’s far from difficult to find.
“The investigation is part of ‘Operation Apprentice’ a long standing investigation into alleged football corruption.
In 2007, then Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie was arrested — along with then manager Harry Redknapp, then club owner Milan Mandaric (now owner of Sheffield Wednesday), agent Willie McKay and former Portsmouth player Amdy Faye — over allegations of corruption. The five men were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.
Last year Redknapp, who is the current manager at Tottenham, was charged with “two counts of cheating the public revenue of an estimated £40,000 after voluntarily attending London’s Bishopsgate police station”.
According to The Independent:
Charges concerned two payments, totalling 295,000 US dollars, alleged to have been made from Mandaric to Redknapp via a bank account in Monaco, evading the tax and National Insurance contributions due between April 1, 2002 and November 28, 2007.
Mandaric, now chairman of Leicester, was charged with tax evasion relating to the payment of 295,000 US dollars to another person via a Monaco bank account, evading tax and National Insurance.
Storrie was charged with concealing a signing-on fee for ex-Portsmouth player Amdy Faye by paying it into the midfielder’s bank account.
The allegation related to the transfer of Faye from Auxerre to Fratton Park for £1.5million in August 2003.
For his part, Redknapp sought to have the case against him dismissed in November last year.
But according to these court documents, the Crown Prosecution Service sought the assistance of the US Department of Justice in September 2010 relating to the transfer of $295,000 from the Florida bank account of a company called First Star International to an account held by Redknapp in Monaco.
Also included in a list given by the CPS was one payment by “Rosie 47? of $207,433.73 on February 12, 2008 to Redknapp. This payment was two months after he was arrested in November 2007. The source of another lodgment in June 2002, for $145,000, is unclear.
The CPS requested US authorities to assist them in obtaining information from the bank used by First Star International – the City National Bank of Florida.“
The content of those documents I am unprepared to share on this blog, but as I say, they are out there.
We’ll have a caption comp later :daumen:
Do us a favour, “long suffering” are you having a laugh?
Ok he is a pain in the arse with regards to his media comments/contacts…… but weve all been on a triffic ride since Harry came in, I’m not his biggest fan but bar a few tacticle mistakes hes done fantastic for us, maybe over played VDV and Gallas last season when there form dipped but show me a Spurs manager who hasn’t made mistakes in the last 20 years?
Lets face facts, Citeh and Chelski are billionair play things, if you try and compete with them you go bust.
UTD may have been leveraged with £700m worth of debt but they make money due to being successful over the last 20 years, its just the leveraged debt that’s the problem.
The scum have competed for honours whilst building a cash mountain that will last them 100 years, they were lucky that there old stadium is in Highbury which enabled them to sell there property for a fortune which has lowered there debts significantly, along with buying young hungry players but paying them a fortune they have done well.
Liverpool were acquired for £100m less than it’s worth hence the buying this year to the tune of £100m, we all know the American owners are waiting for pay per view internet/TV games to make a killing, theres no love in the game for them.
So that leaves us, with our 36000 capacity and an Chairmen who has really done his best with the tools he has to get us up to that top 4, pound for pound I think Levy makes more for Spurs than any other club with similar capacity anywhere!
Good to see someone who understands the realities of football finance.
I am still gutted though that we failed to qualify for the CL last year, and feel a lot of this was down to the tactics used by HR.
Yes on all counts
Cuff hom Dano, he is a gonner by the sound of it
Just to add, how much has the Police and Inland revenue spent on Harry’s case? over £3m that’s how much, just to prove he evaded tax to the tune of £40k!
If he were a property developer/builder they would have fined him and ordered him to pay it back, no court case no anything!
If he is found guilty its not our problem, happened before he was employed by us, I doubt he will get sent down either even if he is guilty.
Going off point slightly, it typically costs £2,100 to prosecute a shoplifter who pleads guilty on a first appearance at a magistrates court. The typical penalty is then a fine of £100.
What frequently happens in cases which are exclusively handled by HMRC, is that the ‘offender’ is given the opportunity to repay the money with a significant penalty. If they deny the claim, then it is up to HMRC whether to pursue the matter or not. However, this option does not exist if the Police decide to charge them.
Don’t know how much you know about Lester Piggott, but he was given that opportunity providing he made a “clean breast of it”, and agreed to pay £1,000,000 in penalties. He then tried to pay by cheque from a bank account that he had not told the revenue about. Deal was withdrawn, and he got a three year sentence.
According to my mate’s dad Dad who was a high up copper at West Ham during Arry’s tenure, Arry’s severance reward (he got no payoff) was that the spammers wouldnt go to the Old Bill [on account of Arrys misdeeds]. Whether true or not, he is certainly dodgy. Can’t see him doing time though. Surely if this was as cast iron as people think (bearing in mind the Operation has been in effect for almost 5 years) he’d be cracking rocks already.
Arry Redknapp is a useless twat……We are less than two weeks away from the start of a new season and he has already told us that we can’t compete in the PL and that the Europa cup is a ‘killer’, Bill Nicholson must be turning like a corkscrew! 2 points from 8 games, getting Tottenham into the Champions League etc etc. A sedated Donkey could have done that with this squad…He struggled for 3 months with the problem that is VDV (his words) and how to fit him in the team, he would have sold Bale had Benny not picked up a long term injury, he plays a circus clown up front most weeks and a one armed goalkeeper who physically shakes when the ball is approaching! Rubberchops believes he should be awarded a fecking medal and the freedom of the city, he shouldn’t, he should be sent down for crimes against my club, never mind all the other dodgy shit he gets involved with….Useless twat…
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Are you one that prescribes to the ‘when we win it’s the players, when we lose it’s the manager’ theory then? Nice to see that sedated Donkey we had at the helm before Harry did so well at Real Madrid and CSKA Moscow. He must have been using the wrong sedative there as well as he got sacked from both of those too.
Still, anyone could get us in the CL with this squad so maybe we should ask say Paul Ince to be the next manager? Or how about Roy Keane or maybe Duncan Ferguson? I’ve got the perfect one – Do you absolutely state, guaranteed 100% that Phil Brown will get us CL football next year if given the job/ Anyone could do it after all?
When we win with this fool in charge, it is simply nothing more than pot luck, which pretty much sums up his whole career.
berk
Very well put.
Sorry for the confusion, but I was telling Astro that it was very well put.
Get a room :-p
Maybe not but Bryan Robson could, and Steve Mclaren or Malcolm Mclaren. Big Sam defo, Alan ‘beg your pardon’ Pardew. Dario O’Grady, (Pauls brother). My choice would Mr Face Like a Kicked in Fridge- Paul Peskystiletto, (or is it Pishycornetto), you Karen’s wife.