portsmouth fc
Chief executive of Portsmouth Football Club, Peter Storrie has been charged with tax evasion and will appear in Westminster City Magistrates Court on November 16th to answer the charges.
Storrie has been accused of concealing the signing on fee for the player Amdy Faye by paying it directly to the players agent William McKay. Faye was signed by Portsmouth from French club Auxerre in 2003 and it is alleged that the player was paid a signing on fee of £250,000 on which no tax or national insurance was paid.
The signing on fee was allegedly paid into William McKay’s bank acount, although he has not been charged despite being questioned by police over the matter.
Storrie has been on police bail since November 2007, when he was first arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting. The inquiry was originally a joint operation between the police and HMRC investigating corruption in football and code named Operation Apprentice.
The Portsmouth chief executive has already said that he will clear his name and that he has nothing to hide.
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