Dave King has fired off another angry statement confirming his personal view that good governance is not a priority for the SPFL executive.
Through his partners at the Daily Record the Sevco supremo demanded the suspension of Murdoch MacLennan due to the SPFL chairman taking up a non-executive role in an Irish company that Dermot Desmond has a shareholding in.
King’s former Ibrox colleague Campbell Ogilvie served on various SFA committees as Managing Director of Hearts while his wife was a significant shareholder in Rangers (IL).
Current Ibrox director Douglas Park is the second biggest shareholder in Hamilton Accies who sold Greg Docherty to Sevco in January.
King, fuelled by his PR team, is determined to expose the Great Celtic Conspiracy where every aspect of the Scottish game is controlled by Desmond and Peter Lawwell.
Running with today’s follow up the Daily Record states:
“I am surprised at the SPFL’s response to my request for an independent investigation into the relationship of its chairman to major shareholders in Celtic FC.
“Any organisation that has behaved properly would welcome an independent and transparent review.
“The SPFL’s response does not even attempt to answer why there was non-disclosure of the conflict that immediately arose when the SPFL chairman accepted this appointment.
“SPFL board members were informed that their chairman was taking up a non-executive directorship with another business but they were not told there was a conflict of interest due to common shareholders with significant influence within that company and Celtic FC.
“We need to be told if the SPFL chairman chose not to disclose the conflict. If it transpires that he did in fact make the required disclosure then to whom did he address this and why did that person not relay this critical information to SPFL board members?
“Had the conflict been disclosed the SPFL board members could have carried out their fiduciary obligation by interrogating this conflict of interest and agreeing how the chairman would deal with it going forward.
“The existence of this conflict means that the SPFL chairman must recuse himself from much of the business of the SPFL going forward thereby rendering his present position as being not fit for purpose.
“The SPFL’s rather hurried and inadequate response merely reinforces my personal view that good governance is not a priority for the SPFL executive.
“These questions must be addressed immediately if confidence is to be restored in the SPFL executive and its chairman.”
Sevco Managing Director Stewart Robertson is on the board of the SPFL alongside Ibrox fanatic Les Gray (nominally of Hamilton Accies) and Ann Budge of Hearts.
Tomorrow the SFA will forward to UEFA the names of the clubs to compete in next season’s UEFA competitions.
King has still to deposit £11m in a UK escrow account to comply with a ruling from the Takeover Appeal Panel.
