T.R.O.Y wrote:Speaking to someone in the pub last night and that came up, I’ve never taken a close look at the accounts but know you have so wondering if there was any truth in it?
There is absolutely nothing in the accounts (link below) to show that Ken or Lee Anderson was paid anything - that is a factual statement no matter what anyone else may want to believe differently.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]There was however a payment of £525,000 shown in one of an Anderson family member owned company Inner Circle Sports and Media, for consultancy services.
(I can't recall now if that payment was made in the same financial year as the clubs accounts or the one after it - but news of this payment came out after the clubs accounts did).
Some people (the anti-Anderson's) took this to be payment to KA as 'wages' from the club, others claimed it was payment to LA for working as an agent in signing players - and a third view (and put forward by a hard core pro-Anderson) was that it was simply a vehicle to allow Inner Circle to fund the purchase of Holdsworth's shares from the liquidator (although the timeline doesn't seem to support this theory for me as the payment was made well in advance of the liquidator gaining control of Holdsworth's shares - so how did anyone know what the acceptable price of them would be? The propagator of this theory seems to rest his case on the fact that the sum of £525,000 less tax comes to an amount similar to what Inner Circle Investments paid for the shares).
Just for clarity neither KA or LA were named as Directors of IC Sports and Media, the Directors were shown to be Ken's wife Patricia and another Anderson who I believe may well of been Ken's other son.
At the end of the day no one outside those involved commissioning the work from the club end or doing the 'consultancy' at the Anderson owned company knows what the underlying reason the payment was made.
No one presumably apart from the Anderson's even know if KA or LA where even involved in any way in regards to this payment, or received any benefit from it.
I've speculated that the payment could have had something to do regarding work involved in many of the court cases the clubs been involved with over the last two years and absolutely nothing to do with a way of siphoning money out of the club to pay KA, LA or both.
Similarly to all that I've said in relation to the £525,000 payment there was a payment of £125,000 shown in the notes of the accounts as payment to the Athos Group 'owned by a family member of KA.
I have yet to locate this company on the Companies House data base - if anyone has the link I would be grateful if they could post it - thank you.
Again there is no prove that I'm aware of that LA (or KA) is or ever was involved in the company nor worked for them in any capacity.
Thus the alleged suggestions that KA and/or LA have been paid in any way, are just that, no one as found any prove to substantiate such claims.
It is all just guesswork with people simply putting two and two together.
They might be right but they might well be wrong also.
I myself would rather stick with the facts than go with the hysteria.
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