Post by JimboTheRam on Jul 20, 2009 14:22:26 GMT -1
THREE former Rams bosses have been sentenced to a combined seven-and-a-half years in prison for financial crimes during their time at the club.
The prison terms were given to Murdo Mackay, Andrew Mackenzie and Jeremy Keith at Northampton Crown Court this morning.
They followed the conviction of ex-director of football Mackay and former finance director Andrew Mackenzie last month of conspiring to defraud Derby County of £375,000 plus VAT, or a proportion of that money.
Mackay, 53, of Alicante, admitted taking a cut of the cash but claimed it had been a legitimate payment for brokering the takeover.
Mackenzie, 55, of Littleover, Derby, had denied receiving any money.
Former chief executive Jeremy Keith was convicted of false accounting in the removal of some or all of the money.
Judge Ian Alexander sentenced Keith, 44, of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, to 18 months in prison and disqualified him from being a director of a company for three years.
Mackenzie and Mackay were given three years each in prison and both disqualified as directors for five years.
A fourth man, solicitor David Lowe, was given a two-year jail sentence for helping the trio. He had been found guilty of money laundering as part of the same trial.
Judge Alexander said: "Before your convictions on this indictment all four of you were men of some prominence in your respective professional lives and to some extent public figures.
"When dishonesty and fraud is perpetrated by those to whom others are entitled to look up to by virtue of their position or occupation, and who appear to have been successful in their lives, the fall from grace is in some ways more reprehensible and must be dealt with accordingly.
"The spectre of prominent members of society behaving in such a dishonest way, on this scale, without any apparent hesitation, conscience or remorse, is very unedifying and can only be dealt with by immediate custodial sentences."
www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Jail-corrupt-Rams-bosses/article-1179312-detail/article.html
GOOD!!
The prison terms were given to Murdo Mackay, Andrew Mackenzie and Jeremy Keith at Northampton Crown Court this morning.
They followed the conviction of ex-director of football Mackay and former finance director Andrew Mackenzie last month of conspiring to defraud Derby County of £375,000 plus VAT, or a proportion of that money.
Mackay, 53, of Alicante, admitted taking a cut of the cash but claimed it had been a legitimate payment for brokering the takeover.
Mackenzie, 55, of Littleover, Derby, had denied receiving any money.
Former chief executive Jeremy Keith was convicted of false accounting in the removal of some or all of the money.
Judge Ian Alexander sentenced Keith, 44, of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, to 18 months in prison and disqualified him from being a director of a company for three years.
Mackenzie and Mackay were given three years each in prison and both disqualified as directors for five years.
A fourth man, solicitor David Lowe, was given a two-year jail sentence for helping the trio. He had been found guilty of money laundering as part of the same trial.
Judge Alexander said: "Before your convictions on this indictment all four of you were men of some prominence in your respective professional lives and to some extent public figures.
"When dishonesty and fraud is perpetrated by those to whom others are entitled to look up to by virtue of their position or occupation, and who appear to have been successful in their lives, the fall from grace is in some ways more reprehensible and must be dealt with accordingly.
"The spectre of prominent members of society behaving in such a dishonest way, on this scale, without any apparent hesitation, conscience or remorse, is very unedifying and can only be dealt with by immediate custodial sentences."
www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Jail-corrupt-Rams-bosses/article-1179312-detail/article.html
GOOD!!
