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Re: Haigh Arrested in Dubai

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W.Yorks Police involved as well, but pending a further assessment:

Adam Pope ‏@APOPEY 1h
#lufc Statement from @WestYorksPolice re allegations of serious fraud and embezzlement made by GFH Capital against David Haigh to follow...

Detective Inspector Ian Lawrie, of West Yorkshire Police's Economic Crime Unit, said: "We were passed a report from Action Fraud for investigation on 19 May relating to an allegation of fraud. Following assessment of the report and further information received, the matter has been sent back to Action Fraud for further consideration.

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Seems Haigh will end up with a bum like an open golf bag?? And destitute, I hope! :roflmao:

Adam Pope ‏@APOPEY 55m
I understand that the DIFC Dubai's Deputy Chief Justice Chadwick has granted an order to freeze former #lufc MD David Haigh's global assets.
Justice Chadwick is understood to have also granted an order to search a property in Dubai.


Not sure what power a this Chadwick has "globally", but Dubai control the finance world it seems? Go down, tory boy! :twisted:
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Details of the claim....

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/wp- ... s-v-DH.pdf

Looks like fake invoices, lots of 'small' amounts but the add up, £2,250,532 according to the bottom figure.
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So - Haigh embezzles money (allegedly) - Haigh loans money to Leeds.

Does this mean that he actually got GFH to invest their own money in Leeds, albeit unbeknown to themselves?

Did he just see Leeds as a money-laundering opportunity?
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Guildford White wrote:So - Haigh embezzles money (allegedly) - Haigh loans money to Leeds.

Does this mean that he actually got GFH to invest their own money in Leeds, albeit unbeknown to themselves?

Did he just see Leeds as a money-laundering opportunity?
He must be mates with Bates to come up with a scheme like this.
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Shields53 wrote:
He must be mates with Bates to come up with a scheme like this.
SHHH, Adam - you will get ridiculed on here for insinuating that Bates is still involved! :shock:
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Bates, GFH, Cellino: Same s**t, different arseholes.
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So he had prepared a dossier on GFHC and was about to "dob" them in to the regulators but then was "tricked" into going to GFHC headquarters on the pretext of a significant job offer?? That doesn't ring true at all!! :? :bear:
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Statement by Haigh released on Twitter:

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Whatever the rights and wrongs of his case, whatever he did at Leeds, holding him without charge for so long is wrong - this is an abuse of human rights as bad as those that Tony Blair was keen to introduce over here.
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I think the Doc got it spot on when he said that it looked very much as though Haigh is being used as a scapegoat by GFH-C. They seem very determined to keep him quiet about their actions over the period of their full ownership of Leeds. I do hope that all their financial shenanigans are exposed to public view. Perhaps Haigh is not the devil so many believe him to be? :duno:
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Devil or otherwise, he has human rights as everyone does - and they are being abused in Dubai.

Whether he was a scapegoat or not will come out eventually, but if GFH really wanted to keep him quiet this seems a strange way to go about it.
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Guildford White wrote:Devil or otherwise, he has human rights as everyone does - and they are being abused in Dubai.

Whether he was a scapegoat or not will come out eventually, but if GFH really wanted to keep him quiet this seems a strange way to go about it.
What would be not a strange way to keep him quiet?
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Crude wrote: What would be not a strange way to keep him quiet?
Bribery normally works. Ask Blatter.
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Ah, yeah, didn't think about that. Maybe GFH ran out of the annual allotment of bribe money? :wink:
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Crude wrote:Ah, yeah, didn't think about that. Maybe GFH ran out of the annual allotment of bribe money? :wink:

Arab businesses NEVER run short of bribe money Dan!
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Guildford White wrote:

Arab businesses NEVER run short of bribe money Dan!
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dodgy basted.trapped by the lack of resources in his cell, though he stressed he has no complaints about the UAE's legal system cheeky fecker yet scared of UAE they would stone him to death or least hang him perhaps.do your bird dave
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