The business and economy editor of BBC Scotland has deleted a tweet linking Celtic to the Paradise Papers.
Douglas Fraser quickly jumped on the innuendo from his colleague Mark Daly as the state broadcaster attempted to link Celtic with a tax scandal.
Fraser and his BBC colleagues have largely looked the other way as Dave King and his cronies have taken Sevco to the brink of administration.
— Electronic Tims (@ETimsNet) November 8, 2017
Dermot Desmond is not Celtic. BBC falling over themselves to engineer some kind of faux equivalency between the best run team in Scotland and the worst run team in Scotland. Absolutely laughable.
— ChucklesLeVert (@ChucklesLeVert) November 7, 2017
@celticfc According to @BBCDouglasF you are involved in tax avoidance. This needs clarified. @CelticFCSLO
— EC…. (@ellen_coyle) November 7, 2017
Wow you should have sought legal advice before accusing @celticfc In something that has nothing to do with them. Actionable lies….
— Henriklubo (@Henriklubo) November 7, 2017
In what way were Celtic involved in the paradise papers?
— Scottsman78 ???????????? (@Scottsman1978) November 7, 2017
When King’s appeal at the Court of Session against the ruling by the Takeover Appeal Board was being heard the state broadcaster cancelled coverage of day two after tweets from the first day had exposed the South African based criminal’s attitude to the law of the land.
According to the BBC website: “Douglas Fraser has been business and economy editor at BBC Scotland since October 2008 – joining on the morning world finance went into a tailspin. This was coincidental. He was previously based in Holyrood, as political editor at The Herald and at the Sunday Herald. He co-wrote the Political Guide to Modern Scotland, and authored a report on the Scottish media for the Institute of Public Policy Research, which has been widely ignored.”
Five days after Sevco published their audited accounts for the year to June 2017 BBC Scotland have yet to pass any comment.
Despite his QC telling the Court of Session that King was penniless Sevco’s accounts state that his NOAL company, registered in the British Virgin Isles, will provide £4m of finance this month.
