CHARGES against former Rangers administrators in a multi-million pound fraud case have been dropped.
David Whitehouse and Paul Clark face trial alongside former owner Craig Whyte, 44, ex-chief executive Charles Green, 62, and three other men over a number of charges.
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The pair had the charges against them deserted by prosecutors during a preliminary hearing today.
Clark and Whitehouse still face two charges.
Admin charges dropped
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I thought this was about Admin 1 dropping the restraining order against Admin 2
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Clark and Whitehouse still face two charges.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14257198.Rangers_administrators_have_six_charges_dropped_in_fraud_case/
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What charges remain?
Haw Lausrup.
Up and answer the man.
You're JA's Court Reporter In Residence.
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Prosecutors have dropped five charges against the former administrators of oldco Rangers in the multi-million-pound fraud case.
David Whitehouse and Paul Clark are facing trial alongside former owner Craig Whyte, 44, ex-chief executive Charles Green, 62, and three other men over a number of charges relating to their dealings with the club.
Whyte, Green and David Grier have also had allegations against them dropped. Charges seven, eight and nine, which alleged Whyte and Grier obtained thousands of pounds from Rangers by fraud were also deserted. Green has now also been deleted from charge 12.
The indictment has now been reduced from 15 charges to nine.
The Duff and Phelps employees had the charges against them deserted by the Crown during a preliminary hearing at court in Edinburgh on Friday.
David Grier, Gary Withey, 51, and Imran Ahmad also face a number of charges relating to their dealings with the club.
Clark and Whitehouse still face two charges but charges one, four, ten, 11 and 13 on the 28-page indictment have been deserted.
The pair were accused in, charge one, of conspiring with Whyte and three other men to obtain by fraud a controlling stake in Rangers.
Whitehouse and Clark were accused of involvment in serious organised crime in charge four and in charge ten were accused of making the administration of Rangers "inevitable" as well as failing to pay a £2.8m tax liability and receiving £6m from Ticketus LLP.
They were also accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice in charges 11 and 13. The charges have now been dropped.
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Full charge list here Curly,it`s all I can find,you`ll need to deduct the 6 from the 15 tho
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-fraud-case-full-list-7125363
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so is this whats left?
2. CW & GW contravened the proceeds of crime act using the £28,262,094 obtained by fraud when purchasing the club
3. DG, DW & PC failed to report suspicions of Money Laundering by CW & GW using Financial Assistance to purchase the club, contrary to the proceeds of crime act
5. CW & GW breached the Companies Act by using the clubs own money to fund the acquisition (Financial Assistance
6. CW & GW committed fraud by failing to disclose CWs disqualification to the SFA
7. CW & DG committed fraud by falsely submitting invoices for £253,800 to Rangers which should have been submitted to Liberty Capital.
8. CW & DG committed fraud by falsely submitting invoices for £409,320 to Rangers which should have been submitted to Liberty Capital.
9. CW & DG committed fraud by falsely submitting invoices for £66,120 to Rangers which should have been submitted to Liberty Capital.
12. CW, GW, DW, PC, CG & IA conspired to defraud creditors by purchasing the clubs business and assets significantly below market value.
14. CW and IA defrauded investors in Sevco 5088 and RIFC, acquiring money and shares by fraud and to increase the value of their shares in RIFC
• CW pretended he had no interest in Sevco 5088 Induced investors to put £5,500,000 into Sevco 5088
• CG caused the change of exclusivity from Sevco 5088 to Sevco Scotland without proper approval
• CG did appropriate the £5,500,000 invested in Sevco 5088 by fraud without the investors knowledge or agreement
• CG & IA allotted themselves 2,000,000 shares
• CG & IA changed the name of Sevco Scotland to The Rangers Football Club
• CG & IA appointed Cenkos as a nomad but failed to advise them of the source of funding through Sevco 5088
• CG & IA thereby raised £21,000,000 in the IPO by fraud
15. CW failed to provide police with mobile phone and laptop passwords, when requested, in breach of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act by police contrary to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
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