Steve1872 4 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 A timescale for the investigation into alleged dual contracts at Rangers should become clearer next week. There will be a procedural hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday involving members of the independent commission and lawyers from Rangers. The independent commission was set up by the Premier League. It will investigate the allegations that previous players at the Glasgow club were paid with so-called side contracts. "The Scottish Premier League today announced that the independent commission to inquire into alleged EBT payments and arrangements made by Rangers in relation to players during the period from 2000 until 2011 will sit on Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 September," said an SPL statement. "The hearing will be chaired by Lord Nimmo Smith and will consider submissions from parties on various procedural matters. "It will not be a hearing of the merits of the case." The three-man group, which also features Charles Flint QC and Nicholas Stewart QC, will eventually decide whether Rangers broke SPL rules regarding payments made through their controversial Employee Benefit Trust scheme. Such payments are also the subject of a tax tribunal, which is yet to be decided. The tax tribunal will have no impact on the current Ibrox regime, whose side now plays in Division Three and which bought the assets and business of the soon-to-be-liquidated club. However, the SPL probe could lead to Rangers being stripped of league titles, although there are more than a dozen other potential sanctions 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I know where they can stick their effing probe!! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza_8 233 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Anyone else think the verdict has already been made? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 this will cost fortunes. you can bet they wouldn't be spending if they weren't planning to recover it. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aweebluesoandso 290 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Imo Rangers lawyers should turn up with statement declaring these hearings being prejudicial, bias and corrupt, then declare we will meet them and any decision they make in the Court of Session, then walk out. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Imo Rangers lawyers should turn up with statement declaring these hearings being prejudicial, bias and corrupt, then declare we will meet them and any decision they make in the Court of Session, then walk out. Spot on. Time to stop taking unjust punishments on the chin. The SPL can GTF. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluedell 5,716 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Hardly independent when the people appointing the committee are proven to be biased and one of the committee has been proven in a court of law to have illegally ruled against us. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 agreed nimmo the dimmo is a very strange choice given his previous for illegally punishing us. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Guaranteed stitch-up, that's what "independent" translates as in SFA and SPL lingo Bluedell. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluedell 5,716 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 agreed nimmo the dimmo is a very strange choice given his previous for illegally punishing us. We have already humiliated him by proving he was incompetent so who else to guarantee a stitch-up, as Zappa says. Perhaps the big surprise is that they are being so obvious about it, but that's the arrogance of Regan and Doncaster. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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