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:
He’ll never get the England job if this is going to blow up in his face,shame really as he is what we need with england and can easily handle the gutter press
the media,mp’s,the police,the legal and financial system really are in a state and shouldnl’t be looking at anyone except themselves and how badly they are letting england down since brown and blair have been champagne socialising on the worlds stage,lord give us strength,when are we going to get a leader who puts England and the english first
i know city arrived las vegas style but we still went backwards last season,not scoring which is down to one man,if vdv stopped his 4-4-2 style,thats down to redknapp no one else,if we go backwards again levy will pull the trigger could even be before xmas if we are mid table,good luck redknapp i do hope harry,bond and jordan have been working on strategy and what we can do instead of endlessly going on habout how much bigger our fivals are
Excluding this taxation Mumbo Jumbo (each to their own yet to be interested in someone elses financial wrong doing is plain dull) HR is doing everything in his power to be giving the sack.
He’d get a pay off and be free to do the England Job. The man has no intention of resigning.
He has consistently played down or chances of sucess from not having the squad, (great for player morale from a man whose reputation is built on his ability to raise it) Now to the bollocks about the Europa Lge.
why do people keep saying would you want to go up north like its bad,2 of the biggest clubs in the world are up north and the richest club in the world not to mention some seriously hot northern pussy with their sexy accents,
its not as if you will be moving into a smashed up council flat in sunderland,the surrounding countryside ia as beautiful as anywhere and i’m sure i could fit in on 60,000 smackers a week,
well a nice italian boy prob like a good restaurant, and while i am not suggesting sunderland and manchester are serving deep fried pizza, a la glasgow, i am told by friends that have had to tours in thise two cities that there are three restaurants in all of manchester he cd take a client to without being embarrassed and two in sunderland.
plus if they have missus then the london social scene and shopping helps. for years whenever i met someone from leeds they wd announce they have a harvey nichols, so sad. london has soooo much more of everything. sriously, if you earn 60 grand a week then bond street or parts of regent street etc etc etc are nice to shop in and the northern cities dont have anything a patch on that and they dont have fine restaurants, simple. it really is grim oooop north
Well, if that’s the extent of a footballer/footballer’s wives problem, then fuck the lot of em. Pathetic. They can visit London, day trip if it means so much to these overpaid buffoons.
And you sound like you just repeated that pathetic excuse Tevez came out with regarding eating out in Manchester. These dicks need to wake up, there are millions of people in the world living of less than $1.25 a day, those who aren’t fortunate enough to eat a decent meal, let alone choose which fucking restaurant to eat in.
i fully understand and agree they are a bunch of spoilled kids, but that is a given, so naturally with that much dosh in your pocket then you wd like to be able to enjoy it and while there are a few high quality galleries and theatre compnanes and opera companies and venues for every other sort of music and restaurants dotted around the north the difference bewteen any northern city and london is night and bloody day, so all things being equal they wd rather be in london than effing sunderland. and things are not equal as keane and croch already have contracts at a london club that has recently emphasised to a certain mr modric how impt it is to respect a contract
seriously hot northern pussy, hahaha, tell mr offside, please
well if you are an italian football player and have grown up in milan surrounded by elegant and well dressed italian birds a slapper from liverpool with a bunch of tattoos and an accent you cannot understand is hardly likely to be attractive. ok, so she will jump in to bed at the drop of a hat and let the footie players do despicable things to her, but then they are wealthy footie players so the elegant itailan girl prob will do the same, and she wont sell her story to the tabloids the next day. nope, sorry but i see nothing attractive in the north to a french, italian or spanish football player. now it might be a step up for a russian or a player from some other yet to emerge market in the former soviet union, as long as they have not spent a few years in london already. note modric expressed no interest in utd, his footballing ambitions and desire for success are moderated by his wife’s willingness (lack thereof)to move to manchester, and good for her
you need to stop generalising,you have obviously never visited some rich places in the north its as rich as anywhere and seen the beautiful women,london is a shithole too by the way especially tottenham,do they all live on the high road above the fried chicken shop our players
obviously someone from the med or south america won’t like the climate but i’m talking about all players not just your latino’s
i grew up in the north and yes audley edge and wilmslow are nice places with big expensive houses. but if you have lots of cash i am sure it wd be nice to spend in on fine restaurants and the theatre or whatever else, and no matter how nice the house (or gaudy in the case or stevie gerrard) there is nowt going on in manchester. i am quite familiar with many northern towns and the only generalisation i made that was wromg was women from liverpool. to be clear there is no town in the north that has a fraction of the things going on or to da that london has. happy to compare a time out or other such for any northern city of your choosing
thats right,obviously nothing can compete with london town for the super rich or latino homesick and i’m not having a go i’m just saying i wouldn’t mind it up north on £45,000 and getting stuck into all that northern pussy
Whats baby cats got to do with anything?
Strange day. Listened to this idiots on talkshite today; you know the hairy fella and the Scottish one and they mentioned playing golf with butch wilkins. Anyways long story short;
Turns out they’re playing in front of me and prior to teeing off I earwig a conv that basically says that Arry will be doing bird unless his beak pulls a rabbit.
So no need to slate the fella anymore as he will be a gonner before Xmas.
Where now?