Rangers fc

One of the parties charged with, but later acquitted of, fraud in connection with an allegedly fraudulent scheme to acquire Rangers Football Club in 2011 ...

He concluded: “The evidence supported the view that the police’s honest belief was that the pursuer had been party to the presentation of false information to the Independent Committee. Those in the Crown Office, including Crown counsel, shared the view of the police that the pursuer had been engaged in a scheme to acquire the Club by fraud; that is, as they saw it, buying the Club with its own money.” In relation to the conduct of the police, the motivations of the investigating officer, DS Robertson, was not that of an individual trying to bring a person to justice. Different considerations would arise when the Lord Ordinary was assessing the honest belief of Crown counsel in the sufficiency of evidence against the pursuer and those which must have influenced the Lord Advocate in determining to settle the cases against Messrs Whitehouse and Clark. By the summer of 2013, the police had begun to suspect the pursuer. The Dean of Faculty, Dunlop KC, appeared for the pursuer and reclaimer in his case against the Lord Advocate and Smith KC in his case against the Chief Constable.