Redknapp found not guilty of tax evasion (From The Northern Echo)
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Redknapp found not guilty of tax evasion
11:40am Wednesday 8th February 2012 in Football: Club News
FOOTBALL boss Harry Redknapp was cleared today of taking bungs in an offshore tax dodge.
The Tottenham Hotspur manager's hopes of leading the England team received a major boost as he walked free from court.
Jurors accepted Redknapp's angry denials that he avoided tax on any payments over £189,000 found in a Monaco account.
His acquittal alongside co-defendant Milan Mandaric blows the final whistle on a five-year £8m police investigation which failed to yield a single conviction.
Mandaric and former Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie were also cleared of £600,000 tax dodge claims at a previous trial, it can be reported for the first time.
Redknapp and Mandaric hugged as the jury cleared them of all counts.
Redknapp was at times moved to the verge of tears as the Crown alleged that he told a pack of lies in an attempt to get off the hook.
But jurors accepted Redknapp and Mandaric's evidence that the Monaco account in the name of Redknapp's dog, Rosie, was nothing to do with footballing matters.
Comments(4)
MrMorden
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1:19pm Wed 8 Feb 12
Honest tax payers have to make up the short fall for people like him.
Funny how is old clubs went into admin like Southampton, Portsmouth, etc.
IonlySpeaktheTruth
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8:54pm Wed 8 Feb 12
ilexuk
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11:11pm Wed 8 Feb 12
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Dean M says...
12:27pm Wed 8 Feb 12
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A lot less than the £8 million spent by the taxpayer on the wages of the police and others involved in this daft investigation, which they've strung out for 5 years.
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Well done, Harry. You beat the rap.