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The lack of Scottish Football media reporting of Manchester City being charged by the English Premier League for financial misdemeanors (charges above) demonstrates how exposed Celtic are under this investigation. There’s a lot of hiding & suppression of stories going on. Normally the usual rags would be all over this issue. Looks like EPL, from … Continue reading
Celtic FC love to attach their name to celebrities and recently it was discovered that US President Joe Biden’s secret service codename is ‘Celtic’. It came out in reports on his son’s, Hunter, laptop being left by the druggy meth head at a repair shop: Source US media and social media services censored the details … Continue reading
In 2016, this blog highlighted that Dermot Desmond, current controller of Celtic PLC, was also the 33.1% owner of the Latvian bank, Rietumu Banka, that was found to have committed money laundering offences moving money for Russian Oligarchs. https://footballtaxhavens.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/fit-proper-dermot-desmond-owns-33-of-latvian-bank-reported-fined-for-money-laundering-and-tax-avoidance/ An additional post in 2018 highlighted that Rietumu Banka was providing services for those Russian Oligarchs … Continue reading
“Never shoot yer mooth aff no matter who you meet if bullshit got you ta the tap of the tree” ~ Watt Nicol Peter Lawwell, the ‘acclaimed’ CEO of Celtic will be gone at end of season. He will be a Separate Entity to Celtic just like the Celtic Boys Club. Will he be known … Continue reading
Lawyers, PR and Politicians (Labour/SNP same football shirt underneath) Rod McKenzie’s fingerprints are all over the shenanigans with the two SPFL sycophants, Neil Doncaster and Murdoch MacLennan hiding behind McKenzie ‘metaphorically’ and his statements including the pre-written one in reply to the Rangers dossier speedily sent out before reading it. Here’s Mr McKenzie representing the … Continue reading
Glasgow City Council Valuation of Westthorn Since Celtic bought Westthorn for £675,000 in 2009, from Glasgow City Council, they have done nothing with it except use it as security on the Co-Op Bank low interest overdrafts and loans. Note that Westthorn was bought after Celtic decided to move their training centre to Lennoxtown. It would … Continue reading
Celtic’s Bankruptcy Threat Trigger was March 1994 Sheffield United Demand for £350,000 for Willie Falconer In fact it was demands for a player debt that prompted the Bank Of Scotland to call in Celtic’s overdraft. Willie Falconer was signed in January 1994 from Sheffield Untied for £350,000 and it was the demand for that full … Continue reading
Murdoch MacLennan reading oath at Leveson Inquiry 10 January 2012 link. INM Plc Has Gone Private But Conflict of Interest Remains Last year Denis O’Brien, Celtic shareholder who had 29.9%, and Dermot Desmond, controlling shareholder of Celtic Plc, had 15%, respectively of INM Plc. A Belgium based media group, Mediahuis, firstly acquired a percentage of … Continue reading
One of the first things Fergus McCann did upon taking over Celtic, in March 1994, was sack Lou Macari a couple of months later in June 1994. Macari was not quite 8 months into a 3 year contract. As Celtic did with Tommy Burns at Kilmarnock, after Lou Macari was poached, Stoke City only allowed … Continue reading
In a previous post we highlighted the revisionism of several of the Celtic annual accounts after the Fergus McCann takeover in March 1994. One of the main items was Unpaid Payroll taxes which were detailed by Mr McCann in the Celtic 1994 accounts: In the notes the figure of £170,485 is given, in the first … Continue reading
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