Friday, September 08, 2006

After Serie A: English Premier League scandal to come?

English Premier League football is bracing itself for its own corruption scandal after Premiership investigators confirmed they have evidence of illicit transfers involving several top-flight Premieship clubs.Here, a team of specialist bung-busters - headed by former Met Police chief Lord Stevens - has highlighted a series of highly-questionable Premier League transfers. Only this time it’ll be transfers - from the Screws on the transfer inquiry.Now they want the green light to go further and grill the clubs, players and agents involved in those “dodgy deals” in a bid to bring them to justice. And the investigators will enjoy unprecedented powers in their search for the truth.They will be able to demand home, office and mobile phone records, and personal bank accounts in an effort to find out who paid and who received the money which allegedly “went missing” in the deals.That could then lead to a number of high-profile cases being brought against some of the game’s biggest clubs and biggest names - a shameful episode to rival the match-fixing sensation in Italy.Nothing will happen for a couple of months because Lord Stevens’ team will not officially present their interim report to the Premier League until September.But inside sources say the report will provide enough evidence to convince the Premier League there are serious causes for concern in several high-profile moves.

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