{"id":295529,"date":"2023-11-30T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T02:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=295529"},"modified":"2023-11-30T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T02:26:07","slug":"newcastle-fail-in-legal-battle-with-hmrc-over-2017-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/newcastle-fail-in-legal-battle-with-hmrc-over-2017-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle &apos;fail in legal battle with HMRC over 2017 investigation&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Newcastle &#8216;fail in lengthy legal battle to stop documents seized by HMRC in 2017 tax fraud investigation being used in civil case&#8217;&#8230; as fall-out from St James&#8217; Park continues six years on<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>St James&#8217; Park was raided in 2017\u00a0as part of a tax fraud investigation by HMRC<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It has now been claimed Newcastle have failed in a bid to stop material from that raid being used as part of the alleged\u00a0multi-million-pound tax scandal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>If Steve Cooper goes, he&#8217;ll be sacked with honour and walk into another top job &#8211; Listen to why on It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Newcastle United&#8217;s bid to stop material seized in a 2017 raid of St James&#8217; Park being used by\u00a0HM Revenue &amp; Customs as part of an investigation\u00a0into an alleged multi-million-pound tax scandal has reportedly failed.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph report that Newcastle went to court to challenge the legality of the 2017 raid, which took place on the same day as a raid on West Ham&#8217;s London Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Officials working on behalf of the tax office seized financial records, as well as mobile phones and office computers under the umbrella of Operation Loom.<\/p>\n<p>However after a reported two-and-a-half year legal battle, Newcastle are reported to have been unsuccessful in their battle to have digital copies of seized documents given back to them by HMRC.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph&#8217;s report details how High Court judges ruled that warrants for the 2017 raid had been &#8216;lawfully issued&#8217; for HMRC&#8217;s investiagtion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/30\/00\/78398867-12807537-image-a-12_1701304500727.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>HMRC officials raided Newcastle United&#8217;s St James&#8217; Park in 2017 amid a tax investigation<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 raids were headline news at the time and the issue surrounding them has continued to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle ex-managing director Lee Charnley, former owner Mike Ashley&#8217;s main man at the club, was arrested at his home at 6am and spent 10 hours with officers before being released without charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The issue made its way to Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday where the Telegraph report that HMRC told how Newcastle had &#8216;systemically abused&#8217; the tax system.<\/p>\n<p>They allege that Newcastle &#8216;secretly&#8217; used the tax system to make payments to agents and players as they sought to close transfer deals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response it is claimed that Newcastle&#8217;s argument is that there are no reasonable grounds to suggest the club committed any tax fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The criminal case into Newcastle United and West Ham concluded in 2021 but HMRC warned then that they had a &#8216;raft of civil powers&#8217; at their disposal, so the case, in a. different form, would continue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/30\/00\/78399303-12807537-image-a-13_1701305446282.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The club have reportedly been unsuccessful in having documents seized sent back to them\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph&#8217;s report goes on to add that it was disclosed on Wednesday in a published High Court judgement that a note sent to Newcastle during the criminal investigation highlighted\u00a0&#8216;tax non-compliance of a serious nature&#8217;, and that &#8216;the matter will now be referred to colleagues elsewhere within the Fraud Investigation Service&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The published note adds that the investigation and any appeals would now fall under the &#8216;banner of civil investigation&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle had reportedly been keen to see any documents seized in the raid as part of the criminal investigation returned and made exempt from any civil case, only for a High Court verdict to rule against them last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear how much HMRC, who started pursuing the Magpies in 2014, are still seeking from Newcastle as the case continues.<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12807537\/Newcastle-fail-lengthy-legal-battle-stop-documents-seized-HMRC-2017-tax-fraud-investigation-used-civil-case-fall-St-James-Park-continues-six-years-on.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle &#8216;fail in lengthy legal battle to stop documents seized by HMRC in 2017 tax fraud investigation being used in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Newcastle &amp;apos;fail in legal battle with HMRC over 2017 investigation&amp;apos; 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