New evidence emerges of Campbell Ogilvie’s EBT role
Ogilvie was a director of Rangers when the EBT tax scheme was introduced which allowed the Ibrox side to make enormous ‘tax free loans’ to entice players to Ibrox which gave them a transfer advantage over other clubs in Scotland and European competitions.
The BBC published a list of those that benefited from EBT payments with Ogilvie finally admitting that he received a £95,000 EBT payment when he left Ibrox, two months later he was appointed a director of Hearts to ensure his continuing presence on the SFA gravy train.
The dedicated band of internet bampots behind the Scottish Football Monitor website have been busy uncovering evidence of those involved in the various Ibrox tax scams and yesterday new evidence appeared of how closely involved President Ogilvie was.
Originating from The Huddleboard a letter allegedly from HMRC to former Rangers director Mike McGill in February 2011 lays out the extent of the evidence against the Ibrox club with Ogilvie’s fingerprints all over the schemes.
The documentation reveals that as well as being paid through the Discount Option Scheme (wee tax case) Tore Andre Flo and Ronald de Boer were also paid through EBT’s. Flor received £450,000 on 30 November 2000 then £700,000 12 months later. De Boer was paid 1,000,000 Dutch gulders, approximately £270,000 with the payments later switched to euros.
De Boer and Flo were given letters detailing their payments on the day that they signed for Rangers with Ogilvie the company secretary, director and SFA office bearer at the time.
According to SFA laws all contractual payments made to players should be notified to the SFA. Sandy Bryson put up an argument that no competitive advantage was gained but the allegation from Inland Revenue/HMRC suggests that the EBT payments were put in place alongside the basic contracts accepted by the SFA.
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