Harry Redknapp arrested

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Always knew he was a snake

Portsmouth have confirmed that manager Harry Redknapp and chief executive Peter Storrie are among five men arrested today by anti-corruption police.

City of London Police held the men on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.

The spokesman said: "Portsmouth Football Club can confirm that chief executive Peter Storrie and manager Harry Redknapp have today been asked to help police with their inquiries concerning a matter dating back to 2003.

This was prior to the new owner taking control of the club at the beginning of 2006.

The club is fully supportive of Peter and Harry who are cooperating fully with City of London Police in this ongoing inquiry.

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Both are playing major roles in the continued success of Portsmouth Football Club.

The men, aged 69, 60, 55, 48 and 30, were taken into custody as officers swooped on eight addresses across the UK.

The raids were part of the forces economic crime units investigation into alleged bungs in the game.

Last year the FA brought in former Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Stevens and his company, Quest, to carry out a separate inquiry into suspect transfers.

A City of London Police spokeswoman said: Five men have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting as part of an ongoing investigation into football corruption.

A 61-year-old man was held in May on suspicion of money laundering and a 28-year-old widely rumoured to be Tottenham defender Pascal Chimbonda was questioned in September.

Police also searched Newcastle, Portsmouth and Rangers as well as two homes during a series of raids in July.

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I think everyone will join with me in wishing 'Arry all the best this week in Southwark Crown Court. Let justice be done.

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'Arry, a criminal mastermind

[font=HelveticaNeue]Monaco bank account used by Redknapp was called Rosie 47 which prosecution claims combines name of his dog and his age[/font]
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Probably the password to his email too…

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Won’t anyone think of poor Sawndra and the family?

Sales of Nintendo Wii will go through the roof once Arry is acquitted.

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Saw this on Twitter:

[font=HelveticaNeue]“Amazing scenes in Southwark this morning as [/font]Harry[font=HelveticaNeue] [/font]Redknapp [font=HelveticaNeue]drives his car into the courtroom and begins giving evidence through the window.”[/font]

[font=HelveticaNeue]:clap: :lol:[/font]

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:lol:

I really hope he gets convicted, just to see how Sky dress it up.

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I think Harry’s a top bloke, but I sincerely hope he’s convicted if it means he never gets the England job, a thought which keeps me awake at night.

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Whut you mean a tax evadaw? E’s a facking footbaw managa.

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Christ, Totti’s had a stroke.

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PROSECUTORS accusing Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp of taking bungs in an offshore tax dodge will today call their first witnesses.
Redknapp banked transfer bonuses worth ÂŁ189,000 in a Monaco account named after his pet dog, Rosie, jurors heard.
One of the payments during his time at Portsmouth[/url] was over the £3m profit the club made on the sale of [url=“http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/England_national_football_team”]England[/url] star [url=“http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Peter_Crouch”]Peter Crouch, prosecutors claim.
Prosecutor John Black[/url] QC will complete his opening statement to the jury before calling the first witnesses at [url=“http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Southwark”]Southwark Crown Court.
Redknapp was accused yesterday of being a hard-headed businessman'' who, alongside co-defendant [Milan Mandaric](http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Milan_Mandaric), obscured the money trail for years. Redknapp failed to tell investigators about the Monaco account as tax officials probed a previous £300,000 payment he received over Rio Ferdinand's record-breaking transfer between [West Ham United](http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/West_Ham_United) and Leeds, it was claimed. Details of Redknapp's private financial dealings as a manager were laid bare as the man widely tipped as [England's](http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/England_national_football_team) next football manager appeared in the dock at Southwark Crown Court. Opening the case, Mr [Black[/url] said: The Crown’s case is that the money transfers to the offshore Monaco account were deliberately and dishonestly paid by Mr [url=“http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Milan_Mandaric”]Mandaric](http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/John_Black), and deliberately and dishonestly received by Mr Redknapp, with the intention of concealing them from the authorities and the payment of tax.’’
Mr Black said both parties must have known'' they were avoiding taxes. These payments were a bung or offshore bonus that the parties had absolutely no intention of paying taxes for,’’ he said.
Redknapp’s widespread popularity'' was singled out by the prosecution. He is currently enjoying what may be described as footballing success,’’ Mr Black said, referring to Tottenham’s[/url] current standing as third in the [url=“http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Barclays_Premier_League”]Premier League.
The manager is unusually talented'' and Harry Redknapp was, it goes without saying, no ordinary employee’’, he said.
But the barrister added: Talented and popular he might have been, the Crown say he was nevertheless a hard-headed businessman, with a financial acumen and pecuniary sense of his influence to his employers.'' Redknapp first flew out to Monaco - a tax haven - in April 2002 to set up the account, the Crown claims. He named the [HSBC](http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/HSBC) account Rosie 47 - a reference to his dog's name and the year of his birth, the court heard. He flew to Monaco for the specific purpose of setting up a secret account, into which the off-the-record payments could be received,’’ Mr Black said.
Mr Black said the first time the British authorities knew of the Monaco account was in November 2006.
It's significant, the Crown suggests, that the bank account opened by Mr Redknapp was located in an offshore tax haven. The Crown suggests this was quite deliberate and was intended to obscure and to render less transparent the nature of the money payments.’’
Redknapp and Mandaric deny two counts of cheating the public revenue when he was manager of Portsmouth Football Club.
The first charge of cheating the public revenue alleges that between April 1 2002 and November 28 2007 Mandaric paid 145,000 US dollars (ÂŁ93,100) into the account.
The second charge for the same offence relates to a sum of $150,000 allegedly paid between May 1 2004 and November 28 2007.
Redknapp, 64, who underwent minor heart surgery last year to unblock his arteries, is the most successful English manager in the modern game, having led Portsmouth to FA Cup success and Spurs to last season’s Uefa Champions League quarter-finals.
Serbian Mandaric, 73, is now chairman of Sheffield Wednesday, having previously worked at Leicester City.

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Redknapp the most successful English manager in the modern game? :lol:

Says it all really.

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Great to see Jamie acompanying him into court

A top top bloke :clap:

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Roy Hodgson, surely…

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Steve McClaren’s title win with Twente surely outranks the titles that Hodgson won in Scandinavia

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Steve McClaren, most successful English manager of the modern game it is so.

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Bobby Robson outranks both.

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The Football Association Cup eclipses any other Association Football trophy on the globe as Sid will no doubt tell us when he logs in. The article is correct.

Innit.

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Bobby Robson is dead, hasn’t managed a team in about 10 years and hasn’t won a trophy since 1997

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Bobby Robson is dead Croppy, they mortals are but shadows and dust. Shadows and dust, Croppy!