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Probably so. Remains to be seen which charges were dropped and which were upheld (or not yet dropped).

 

They are listed above, are they not? This comment was particularly depressing:

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.

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They are listed above, are they not? This comment was particularly depressing:

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.

 

I'll better add another day in bed after two days of illness. krank.gif

 

Wonder on what grounds these charges were dismissed though

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Recap of the charges against them:

 

CHARGE 1: That between January 1, 2010, and February 16, 2012, Whyte, Withey, Grier, Whitehouse and Clark committed fraud by conspiring to obtain a total of £28,262,094 from Merchant Turnaround and Ticketus.

 

It is alleged the Ticketus cash was used to fraudulently persuade Sir David Murray’s representatives that Whyte had the money to buy Rangers.

 

CHARGE 2 (NEW): That Whyte and Withey breached the Proceeds of Crime Act by concealing the “nature, source, ownership and rights” of the Ticketus money so it could be used to buy the club.

 

CHARGE 3 (NEW): That between January 1, 2011 and February 14, 2012, Whitehouse and Clark breached the Proceeds of Crime Act. It’s claimed they “knew or suspected” Whyte was involved in laundering the Ticketus money and failed to tell the authorities.

 

CHARGE 4: That between December 13, 2010 and January 31, 2012, Whyte, Withey, Grier, Whitehouse and Clark breached the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 by agreeing “to do something you knew or suspected, or ought reasonably to have known or suspected, would enable or further the commission of serious organised crime”.

 

CHARGE 5: That Whyte and Withey broke the Companies Act 2006 by using a “proportion of the club’s prospective income from season tickets for 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 to pay a debt due by the club and fund the acquisition of the club”.

 

CHARGE 6: That on May 20, 2011, at the Scottish Football Association, Whyte and Withey failed to disclose that Whyte had been disqualified as a company director.

 

CHARGE 7 (NEW): That between January 31, 2011 and June 14, 2011, Whyte and Grier tried to obtain £253,800 from Rangers by fraud. It’s claimed that on May 11, 2011, a bill for that amount was sent to Rangers when it should have been sent to Liberty Capital, a company Whyte owned.

 

CHARGE 8 (NEW): That between May 9, 2011 and November 28, 2011, more invoices were sent to Rangers that should have been sent to Liberty Capital. Prosecutors claim Whyte and Grier obtained £409,320.

 

CHARGE 9 (NEW): That between August 18, 2011 and October 4, 2011, Whyte and Grier obtained £66,120 by fraud from Rangers using a bill that should have gone to Liberty Capital.

 

CHARGE 10 (NEW): That between May 6, 2011 and March 19, 2012, Whyte, Withey, Grier, Whitehouse and Clark acted to make the club’s administration inevitable so Whyte could buy it back from the administrators debt-free.

 

CHARGE 11: That on July 16, 2012, Whitehouse and Clark tried to pervert justice by submitting a false statement to Court of Session judge Lord Hodge.

 

CHARGE 12: That between February 14, 2012 and October 30, 2012 Whyte, Whitehouse, Clark and Green fraudulently acquired Rangers for a sum below its true market value.

 

Prosecutors claim Whitehouse and Clark falsely pretended they would act in the interests of Rangers’ creditors as administrators. They allegedly agreed that Green would “falsely present” himself as an “independent purchaser of the club”.

 

It is also claimed Whitehouse and Clark permitted the transfer of £291,823.10 from Rangers Youth Development Ltd to Sevco.

 

CHARGE 13: That between February 1 and December 31, 2012, Whyte, Whitehouse, Clark and Green agreed “to do something you knew or suspected, or ought reasonably to have known or suspected, would enable or further the commission of serious organised crime”.

 

It is claimed the men conspired to buy the club from the administrators for “significantly below the true market value”, depriving Rangers’ creditors of money they were due.

 

CHARGE 14: That Green took £5.5million for his own use which he obtained by fraud.

 

Prosecutors claim he bought “the business and assets of the club through its corporate entity Sevco Scotland Ltd with money provided by investors to Sevco 5088 Ltd without their knowledge and agreement”.

 

CHARGE 15 (NEW): That between November 10, 2015 and November 24, 2015, Whyte failed to disclose the passwords and usernames needed to unlock two mobile phones, a portable drive and a MacBook Pro which were seized from him.

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