Harry Redknapp charged over £40,000 tax evasion

Posted Friday, January 15, 2010 by BBC.com

Harry Redknapp charged over £40,000 tax evasion
Tottenham's manager Harry Redknapp voluntarily attended Bishopsgate police station to be charged by police.

The Tottenham manager, Harry Redknapp, has been charged with two counts of cheating the public revenue, his lawyer Ian Burton has confirmed.

Redknapp was accused of a £40,000 evasion by the Crown Prosecution Service. Burton, of BurtonCopeland, said: "The £40,000 figure is our estimate."

Redknapp voluntarily attended Bishopsgate police station in the capital to be charged by police after an exhaustive 26-month inquiry into alleged corruption in English football.

A Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said: "Henry (Harry) Redknapp, the former football manager of Portsmouth City (sic) Football Club, has today been charged with two counts of cheating the public revenue."

Redknapp, who vehemently denies any wrongdoing, has previously dismissed the investigation as "not a major issue".

The former Portsmouth chairman, Milan Mandaric, had the same charge levelled at him by the Crown Prosecution Service on Tuesday which he strenuously denied.