Campbell Ogilvie wants to put the Rangers tax case into history and move on despite an on-going SPL investigation into alleged dual contracts.
The SFA President is understood to have received a £90,000 loan from a member club without any interest rate or repayment schedule and also continued to hold a substantial number of shares in Rangers while he was a director of Hearts.
Following the announcement of the First Tier Tax Tribunal there was a frenzy to move on for the good of the game despite Rangers being found guilty in a number of areas with the full findings still to be published.
The issue of third party payments also arose from the FTT but despite the SPL investigation into the matter Ogilvie seems in a rush to move on and is likely to stand for re-election as SFA president next year.
“I now just want to get on with the job,” he said after yesterday’s Scottish Cup draw. “Let’s get on and move forward with the priorities that are on the table just now football-wise. I’d like to see us focusing on these and moving forward. The last six months have been hard for many people, in many areas of the game.
“I tried to be totally upfront from day one, from the first time I sat with journalists and spoke about it last February or March.
“I tried to highlight my involvement in it in any case but it was always a cloud, it was there every week, every time after a cup draw it was there.
“So I am pleased to move on from that and get back to the subject matter we should be focusing on. It has been a challenging year and I always like to move forward.
“A lot has happened, a lot of water under the bridge. We are at where we are at. Let’s focus on taking the game forward, and because of Rangers, let’s not lose sight of what has happened over last two years.”
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When are you paying the tax back?
Tainted then, tainted now, tainted forever. SFA/Sevco.
Cant believe they are still trying to take the moral high ground . They are morally bankrupt cheating bigots . We should remind them every day God sends of what they are .
Campbell, can you lend me £50 grand, matey. Yeah, same terms as your loan from the football team you destroyed.
is it really over Scam’pbell – or do you know something the rest of us don’t?
as far as the rest of us are concerned the SPL investigation begins in january to determine just how dirty your bigoted little club were.
as for sittin around a table & movin forward; i havn’t noticed that, unless you refer to that bunch of drunken orangemen sittin around a table tryin to conjure up the spirit of the deid RFC.
we know its hard to let it go but you can; you come out from zombie nation & into the real world.
Hail hail!
It will be over when the FTT decide not to appeal, when LNS completes his findings and a result is given, when the BDO recover monies owed to HMRC……..NOT when you want it to be over.
The only pruning that should be done is removing those who dragged our game into the mire….plenty of weeds to be cut at Hampdump.
Ogilvie! You are in receipt of a tax evading, non returnable what you thought would be an “under the counter” payment, to the tune of $90K. Whether that is deemed legal, or not, you now have a reputation that I for 1, do not want the president of my national governing body to have! Piss off!
Cheats…until they die…again.