Former director of Rangers Football Club has been awarded over £600,000 in damages for malicious prosecution.
In 2015, Imran Ahmad was charged with fraud in connection with the acquisition of the Ibrox club’s assets.
But in the end, the accusations against the former commercial director of the club were withdrawn.
With the payment from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, the Rangers case has now cost more than £52 million in total compensation.
The lord advocate publicly apologized to Mr. Ahmad and the former chief executive of the Rangers, Charles Green, in 2021, stating that the prosecutions against them were malicious and that they shouldn’t have been brought.
Green subsequently got £6.3 million in damages.
David Whitehouse and Paul Clarke, the former administrators, received £10.5 million apiece in addition to an apology.
More than £15 million in damages were also awarded to the corporation they worked for.
Seven persons were detained in connection with billionaire Craig Whyte’s 2012 acquisition of Rangers and the club’s subsequent management.
Eventually, the six were not charged, and after a trial, the former owner, Mr. Whyte, was found not guilty of fraud.
According to information obtained by BBC Scotland, Mr. Ahmad made an offer in 2019 to resolve his case and move on by apologizing, but the Crown Office decided to contest the allegations of wrongful arrest.
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