More evidence emerged today on how Rangers recompensed players through their Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) scheme in The Sun newspaper, who have a draft contract Rangers offered an unnamed player. The contract was a letter confirming a six figure payment as well as a £1200 per game appearance bonus.
An accountant told Sun reporters Paul Thornton and Ewing Grahame:
“I have been shown a contract of employment showing how much money players were going to get but also a back letter which I presume that individual has assumed is part of his salary. It seems like a contract.
“If the two documents are handed to someone together, is that seen as being his overall package? If the answer to that is yes then there is a problem because the money that goes into the trust really should be getting taxed because it is his salary.
“The fact it is there as a back letter at all suggests it is dodgy.”
Attention is obviously drawn to the potential criminal consequences of these tax arrangements but football fans throughout the country will be alarmed that Campbell Ogilvie, the man who was general secretary and director of Rangers when the EBT scheme started, is currently president of the SFA and would have been involved in scoping out the secret remit of the SFA inquiry into Rangers, which was asked to report within an incredibly quick two week period. Ogilvie is also one of the few men the inquiry will report to.
If the allegations in today’s Sun are accurate, Rangers have improperly registered football players for a period of around a decade. The penalty for playing an improperly registered footballer in any game is a 3-0 forfeit.
When the SFA president is in a position to confirm all of this, the association have all information they require to make a ruling on this, but despite these allegations being widely reported for many months, they have yet to even acknowledge there is anything to investigate.
Can you imagine the scrutiny the Football Association in England’s board and chief executive would be exposed to if this scandal was not being actioned?
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Exactly, italiabhoy. I am now onto spurs v arsenal.
Lets pull the lavvy chain and be done with it.
Butcher giving them positive news story for tomorrow… Joke.. Compare to the effort against us last season , granted we were mince but we all know they re not trying..
The poppy money story would be very easy to disprove. I’m sure they will have a nice letter thanking them for their donation.
Don’t they?
I was just sick in my mouth!! Are Rankers a subsidiary of Sky? An on-going Rankers love fest – no mention of player contracts, potential cheating et etc. Just Ally ‘I won’t walk’ and the most successful team in world domestic football a British institution.
Not one word about the Orcs songs of peace, love & harmony from Spanner or Sky
Do Duffield’s parents not need him this weekend?
Campbell Ogilvie should be spending more time with his family, methinks.
tigertim
Depends on which knuckle is firmly pressed.
MWD
All those presently flogging themselves watching the Huns and listening to hear what songs they are singing, get a life,broaden your horizons and brighten your dull Sunday afternoon switch channels and watch arsenal v spurs and try watching a wee bit of football for a change
Ps welcome back to yesterday’s day trippers
Funny how the chance to win some trophies can add 10000 to the crowd
Isn’t ol’ Duffield still a hun employee until the end of the month?
Hope he is declaring both incomes to Hector!
Its so clear now with every passing day that Rangers and the SFA have brought the game in Scotland to its Knees. Rangers for obvious reasons and the SFA for at best not doing their job properly or as its beginning to look, that they have been compliant in all this Rangers mess. Someone posted earlier ( sorry cant remember who) that if this was happening in England it would be a huge story with everybody and their granny all over it. What happens up here ? A closed doors investigation. I think its time all the other clubs not just Celtic demanded a showdown meeting with the SFA. The worrying thing in all this is that if the SFA have had their grubby hands all over this and EUFA get involved , innocent clubs who have been working within their means may just find that they will be banned from europe and the International team too. Time to get the kid gloves off
As BRT&H,
May have hinter recently, throughout the implementation of questionable
fiscal and financial irregularities, they had one PF the most
Prominent legal minds in Scotland, surely he would not have advised
Anything reprehensible?
Paul67,
Did we get to the bottom of the 500k?
Italiabhoy, I posted the same sentiment, they truly are scum.
There is no way the offensive behaviour bill could ever prosecute against the use of the word “Huns” to describe them, it is exactly what they are, Huns.
As I said on a recent podcast, I will stop calling them Huns, when they stop behaving like Huns.
Philbhoy, I put a coupon yesterday for the first time in months, spurs, Liverpool and manure.
Maybe get a game at end of March?
hh
bjmac
I’m actually hoing we win the League AFTER ipox……..I genuinely feear for he’s safety in /around the stadium, and in the West /South West of Scotland, during, and after, the game…….some of their fans are truly EVIL, and are just waiting for the ‘opportunity’ …They know they are finished…and, seriously, decent people all over Scotland need to very careful…
Paul67 et al
I am beginning to believe that use of the word Association is a byword for corruption, be it in football, boxing, horse racing or athletics. And not just in sport either. Closer to home recent convictions have shown the SPFA to be little more than a corrupt organisation. Not the players this time, no The Scottish Pelagic Fisherman’s Association, whose members systematically organised what has been described as the largest ever scandal in the UK fishing industry. Members of this Association, acting in concert, and in a masonic fashion, motivated by greed and personal aggrandisement, with the complicity of Government agencies, systematically put Scottish fishing stocks at risk through illegal fishing, deceipt and outright criminality. The value of their crime could total £100 million, and involved, at least half of the Scottish mackerel and herring fleet active throughout the years the crimes were being committed.
I think it is a reasonable position, a priori, to accept that corruption exists at the SFA, the only questions to be answered, as with the SPFA, is for how long and for how many.
Not my eyesight, honest….my keyboard is acting up….HONEST…….LOL
I wonder if Terry will sit in the dug oot for half an hour after the game raging,like he done at CP a few weeks ago….maybe not.
R T
Brill cant wait!! Just a worry they will roll in Peat bed pan an all!! Go for it!!
bjmac
I’ll email you re the golf.
It was reported that Duff & Phelps had visited Murray and had left with documentation showing a payment to Martin Bain to an offshore account?.
Would Duff & Phelps have any jurisdiction over any payments or cash transactions outwith RFC accounts?
Why would Murray hand over any documentation not relating to RFC to administrators of RFC?
Paul 67
How did you get on with your moral dilema btw ?
67h
SPL in the bag? I want it today if you get my drift.
once the dust settles and the union jack draped coffin is safely buried, we can get onto skygate or the Murphy ruling and the impact on the epl. Another house of cards ready to tumble.
gerry
It was reported in one of the chip wrappers this morning that baldy Bain was paid 400K by S(FN)DM at time the Whyte knight bought the Huns for a mythical £1 plus season book money. It’s reported that the payment was a bonus for selling the club. Sounds like this could be what Paul67 was riddling himself about.
MWD
Is the pledge donation shut? Found some farthings do the chair. Whats the total so far??
Did anyone catch Tony’s call with Traynor last night? Saw it referenced a few times here when I scrawled back
Listening to replay on the Iplayer and have tried 4 times now…..Just as Tony mentions the word “tsunami” at 30.06 minutes in I go into a loop and the iplayer just keeps spinning.
Anyone else having the same problem? Surely the Beeb have not done this deliberately?
They’re still singing “Celtic know all about their troubles, we will fight ’til the day is done”
Not long to wait then…..that day is approaching rapidly…LLLLOOOOOLLLLL.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe we will soon see the SFA and Rangers give up.
Now wheres that pesky dossier that Graeme Spiers dismissed?
mickbhoy1888 says:
Strange comment to say the least.
Pen spurs
Noticed in this morning’s Sunday Herald that a former Whyte ally at Ibrokes, one David Grier who did the ‘walk’ down Edmiston Drive with our beloved Whytey the Saturday after Whyte took control, is now …”..a partner in Duff and Phelps, the firm appointed as administrators.”
Is this sort of association normal, Paul? To a gullible wee, non-financial person such as myself it stinks!
Bale… Diving Cheeky Monkey.
Just watching the Legia Warsaw game, 0-3 to Legia, our man Fojut doing not too bad, his CB partner just been sent off.
The referee is amazing, as honest as I have ever seen.
Footnote,, wee ratcho novo is playing well for Legia
So Paul – was Bainio the recipient of the free money?
U
Nakagod says:
26 February, 2012 at 13:46
Not one word about the Orcs songs of peace, love & harmony from Spanner or Sky
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Don’t worry, Pat Nevin is on his way to tackle it fearlessly.
can’t wait to see the wee man in action on the BBC getting tore right in to the bigots – wherever they come from. He promised. Remember………
Went to tesco(not ibrokes yet) kicked into Sky Sports at half time, saw McCann and DUFFIELD. Phoned Virgin and cancelled my package. Ye couldnae make it up. Die Die Die ya huns. Please everyone whether you go to mass or not please learn the Hymn, Faith Of Our Fathers, because all of our departed parents would have loved to see this time and be villified for standing up to them. Full chorus at snake mountain please. Hail Hail and let the good times begin..
ICT found oot.
EmeraldBee\o/ says:
26 February, 2012 at 14:07
Noticed in this morning’s Sunday Herald that a former Whyte ally at Ibrokes, one David Grier who did the ‘walk’ down Edmiston Drive with our beloved Whytey the Saturday after Whyte took control, is now …”..a partner in Duff and Phelps, the firm appointed as administrators.”
Is this sort of association normal, Paul? To a gullible wee, non-financial person such as myself it stinks!
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I asked a similar question myself, like you I am not up with the fiscal rules and regs. The answer was YES.
Which I find incredible. It’s legal. Holy crud.
Back in april at our visit to inverness a policeman stood for the 90mins with a camcorder filming the Celtic support.
I have’nt noticed any videoing of der huns today.
Did anyone else see davis jesture to the home support at the 2nd goal.At the celebrations im sure you just catch him “fisting” the supporters.
I maybe wrong but doubt it.