Rangers EBT hearing to be held next week

THE independent commission probing Rangers’ alleged undisclosed payments to players will hold initial procedural hearings over two days next week, 11-12 September, announced the Scottish Premier League.

The three-man group, of Lord Nimmo Smith, Charles Flint QC and Nicholas Stewart QC, will eventually decide whether Rangers broke SPL rules regarding payments made through their Employee Benefit Trust scheme.

The payments are also the subject of a tax tribunal, which is yet to be decided.

The tax tribunal will have no impact on the current Ibrox regime, which bought the assets and business of the soon-to-be-liquidated club.

But the SPL probe could lead to Rangers being stripped of league titles, although there are more than a dozen other potential sanctions.