A 48-YEAR-OLD man has appeared in court accused of helping three men defraud Derby County Football Club.
Mark Waters, of Courtways, Bromley, who worked for the club’s board as an accountant in 2003, denies conspiring to conceal criminal property and dishonest accounting.
The club’s former chief executive Jeremy Keith, former finance director Andrew Mackenzie and former director of football Murdo Mackay used a £15m loan from the Panama-based ABC Corporation as a “carrot” to buy the club for just £3 in 2003, a jury at Northampton Crown Court heard yesterday (Mar 9).
Keith, aged 41, from Oxfordshire; Mackenzie, aged 55, from Derby, and Mackay, aged 53, from Fife in Scotland, all deny conspiring to defraud Derby County of £440,625 on or before December 8, 2003.
The three men, along with Waters, are also charged with conspiring to conceal criminal property - the £440,625.
A fifth man, David Lowe, aged 58, from Monaco, denies helping to acquire or conceal £81,895.
The trial continues.
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