Leggo today

[samenzi 7]

Fed up with Leggo's shite.

He's backed every horse in the race, and will run around telling everyone that will listen when "he told us so".

dont read it then at least he is trying to shed some light on the shambles a lot better than the key board monkeys on here

[Edmiston Drive 3,846]

Fed up with Leggo's shite.

He's backed every horse in the race, and will run around telling everyone that will listen when "he told us so".

He is lying.............this is taken from his latest blog..............

The Ahmad email, which came directly from him, dropped into my in box a mere three minutes into Thursday morning,

Thursday, 16 May 2013

AHMAD IN EGM BID TO SCUPPER DAVE KING'S BID TO SAVE RANGERS

RANGERS are going to be rocked by a new outbreak of boardroom in-fighting.

And I can reveal that sacked commercial director Imran Ahmad is the man behind the moves to call an Extraordinary General Meeting.

[Guardian 4,281]

One thing for sure ......King is needed in ASAP!

The usual suspects traipse this out mindlessly like it was fact.

I know CW is away but I wasn't aware we were advertising the vacancy for a cheating, tax dodging, living abroad, fraudster.

Wasn't one enough ?

[docspiderman 1,261]

Two points;

I have trouble understanding why people trust that bloggers have insight or tell the truth.

Why Dave King is now flavour of the month after his previous time on the board, his attempts at causing damage to the club,his business and tax problems and his reluctance to invest last year.

[Creampuff 22,628]

dont read it then at least he is trying to shed some light on the shambles a lot better than the key board monkeys on here

Hard to avoid it when some on here parade his bile on here like it's fucking scripture .

[Brock 42]

King is a myth jail is more likely than Ibrox.http://www.bdlive.co...g-family-assets

Thats over 3 months old, he has settled sinced then but nice try anyway...

[Brock 42]

King is the best man for the job IMO.

I only hope he moves for control of the club ASAP.

[haudthebus 49]

Thats over 3 months old, he has settled sinced then but nice try anyway...

Settled when ? I get SA Business Daily link me up to where I missed him settling, the courts must have missed it too as he has an appointment coming up with Judge Southwood.

Yours wasn't even any sort of try nice or otherwise.

[bluenosebrad 452]

Bizarre post.

King is just as dodgy, if not more, than the Easdales.

Totally disagree with you, nothing bizarre about it.

[Bud72 117]

More up to date,

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2013/03/24/last-word-cocky-npa-left-red-faced-by-dave-king

[Bud72 117]

TWO years ago, prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane told me that he didn’t care if the state spent R1bn sending Dave King to jail for breaking the tax laws — it would be money well spent.

It was a curious statement, first because it implied Simelane was a man of high principle while at the same time suggesting the Scottish-born King was something of a fiendish Al Capone character, on whom all the might of the state should be expended.

The truth, on both counts, is very different. Simelane, as we know, was booted from his position by the Constitutional Court last October, essentially for not being a fit and proper person.

But his high-handed statement had come months after the NPA vetoed a “settlement” in 2009 that would have seen King pay R636m to close the book on a tax dispute dating back to 2002.

No, Simelane said, we’ll put that fiendish King in jail before we do any dirty backroom deal.

So, news this week that King has, in fact, reached some settlement over certain assets in the long-running soap opera that has become his tax dispute was a welcome sign. Let’s hope this thaw in the relationship is a precursor to a larger settlement of the entire sorry mess.

Because, let’s face it, government’s ham-fisted pursuit of King hasn’t reflected well on its ability to nail those who it believes have wronged it.

In particular, the National Prosecuting Authority has been embarrassed by King in a way that ought to provide a fillip to anyone plotting any halfway well-constructed white-collar con.

Last August — more than a decade after the event — the NPA finally took King to court over 37 counts of fraud for supposedly defrauding companies like Old Mutual and lying to the JSE when he made R1bn by selling shares in a company called Specialised Outsourcing in 1999.

It would have been one of the country’s most important corporate fraud cases. Ignore the fact that Specialised Outsourcing does not exist any more, ignore the fact that witnesses would be hard-pressed to remember what happened 12 years before.

No matter, the cocky NPA assured us: it had spent the last decade firming up a cast-iron case, it had impeccable witnesses, nothing could go wrong.

So, it was a surprise to these witnesses when the NPA simply closed its case last September after calling only five of its 71 expert witnesses.

Judge Margaret Victor acquitted King, slamming the NPA for failing to put up a case.

One witness called the NPA’s bungling “astounding” and “incomprehensible”.

The bottom line remains: if a guy is really guilty of what you say he is, and you can’t prove it in a decade, you really have no business being in the law-enforcement game.

For King, this only suggested his claims of being victimised and hounded by the NPA in order to settle his tax case were justified.

Now, there are some good, solid professionals at the NPA, who do know what they’re doing. Not all of them have been suspended, like Glynnis Breytenbach.

But there are others — usually in management — for whom a weekly fitting of red noses and oversized shoes wouldn’t be an entirely inappropriate use of money.

Partly thanks to their blundering, King almost has government over a barrel.

In recent weeks, King has -rightly -used the judgment to travel overseas to “unfreeze” cash that had been seized in Jersey and Guernsey.

By all accounts, the overseas courts weren’t amused that all this cash had been frozen more than a decade earlier, yet King hadn’t pleaded to the numerous criminal charges he faced.

Simelane’s sentiment was that a conviction would send a message of “no tolerance” to South Africa’s businessmen. So this is why government has thrown vast sums of money -estimated at more than R400m — on this principle. Along the way, it turned down R636m from King.

Altogether, that’s hundreds of millions at which the government has turned up its nose.

Disregarding the merits of the actual charges against King, the really worrying thing is the message that this decade-long circus act will send to the real Al Capones of South Africa’s corporate sector.

Do your worst, it says, and if you’re really, really unlucky, you’ll face a trial in about a decade or so.

The best thing for the state agencies would be to settle this sorry mess, bank a settlement from King, and sit in a dark room until the red cheeks fade.

* This article was first published in Sunday Times: Business Times

[WilliamFyfe 1,438]

Is Dave King even allowed back at Rangers?

[Creampuff 22,628]

Is Dave King even allowed back at Rangers?

ish.

[Creampuff 22,628]

Totally disagree with you, nothing bizarre about it.

Both done for the same thing, King just done it somewhere else for significantly more money .

[haudthebus 49]

[North Rd 2,860]

He has been ordered to hand over the keys to his Joburg mansion on 7th of Jan 2014, he has 300 odd criminal charges still pending, he would obviously pass the sfa fit and proper with flying colours.

He Has

[Guardian 4,281]

Dave King is just a slightly more successful Craig Whyte.

I dunno how folk can possibly want him anywhere near Ibrox.

Do they only see "Rangers man" in this sentence.

Dave King is a lying, cheating, tax dodging, unscrupulous, irresponsible, conning Rangers man.

[Brock 42]

Dave King is just a slightly more successful Craig Whyte.

I dunno how folk can possibly want him anywhere near Ibrox.

Do they only see "Rangers man" in this sentence.

Dave King is a lying, cheating, tax dodging, unscrupulous, irresponsible, conning Rangers man.

This messageboard just p!sses on everyone without offering any alternatives.

Your post is a joke, he is suing SDM for £20M, he is the only one to call him out for what he is. You would prob love Murray back IMO.

[haudthebus 49]

Dave King is just a slightly more successful Craig Whyte.

I dunno how folk can possibly want him anywhere near Ibrox.

Do they only see "Rangers man" in this sentence.

Dave King is a lying, cheating, tax dodging, unscrupulous, irresponsible, conning Rangers man.

Cos he is a pyooooor real Rangers mananawrat nowhitamean like allegedly, that advised creditors to knock back a CVA.

[Ace 3,556]

I see Leggo is doing his usual "him bad" .. "him good" article.

I seem to recall very similar styles of articles regarding CG previously, using very similar language e..g "Cockney CostCutter" to disparage Chris Morgan -v- linking CG to manchester crime syndicates, look how that turned out, Leggat ended up fauning over CG as he was the man in power & the man to provide him access to the club again.

Personally I have no proper idea, just as 99% of Rangers fans, of who is actually good or bad for the boardroom.

No-one had heard of the Easdlaes, or Stockbridge, Hart or most of the people who make up the Rangers board, certainly some research can provide outline information but no-one knows what their ultimate goal is, they can only run their mouth off based on hearsay, suspicion, and an over-inflated sense of self.

We can only sit by the sidelines, looking in & praying that, somehow, it will be sorted by those who seemed to create the mess in the first place.

[Calgacus 88]

There was never going to be a CVA.

[RFC55 110,237]

Spangles why the fuck would you get the sa business news daily? You dont have a pot tae piss in

[eejay the dj 31,964]

dont read it then at least he is trying to shed some light on the shambles a lot better than the key board monkeys on here

[eejay the dj 31,964]

Craig Whyte and Dave King are nothing alike.

But King and DM are .

[WWTC 2,257]

He has been ordered to hand over the keys to his Joburg mansion on 7th of Jan 2014, he has 300 odd criminal charges still pending, he would obviously pass the sfa fit and proper with flying colours.

Didnt he already clear this up? Im sure he was quotes as saying he had made approaches to the SFA? You'll no doubt no better than me