Notice of Complaint - Livingston FC Friday, 08 August 2014

The Compliance Officer has issued the following Notice of Complaint:

Alleged Party in Breach: Livingston Football Club
Disciplinary Rule(s) allegedly breached:

Rule 1 – By failing to act towards the Scottish FA with the utmost good faith by not disclosing to the Scottish FA that Neil Rankine, shareholder of Livingston 5 Ltd, the parent company of Livingston FC, also holds interests in East Fife FC and Dumbarton FC;

Rule 7 – By providing false, misleading and/or inaccurate information in respect of Neil Rankine’s eligibility as a fit and proper person by declaring in an Amendment to Official Return form, dated 11th November 2013, that there were no matters to be brought to the attention of the Scottish FA in terms of Article 10, nor any interest in any other club in membership of the Scottish FA in terms of Article 13, the truth being that Neil Rankine then held and continues to hold interests in East Fife FC and Dumbarton FC in addition to his shareholding in Livingston FC through Livingston 5 Ltd;

Rule 11 – By failing to specify Neil Rankine, shareholder of Livingston 5 Ltd, on Livingston FC’s Official Return;

Rule 21 - By holding interests in East Fife FC and Dumbarton FC, through Neil Rankine, shareholder of Livingston 5 Ltd, whereby Livingston FC holds power to influence the management or administration of those two aforementioned other clubs;

Rule 86 – Not acting in the best interests of Association Football by not disclosing to the Scottish FA that Neil Rankine, shareholder of Livingston 5 Ltd, also holds interests in East Fife FC and Dumbarton FC.

Principle hearing date: Wednesday, 10th September 2014

It should also say Sammy...

Sorry KK - my mistake.

My hope is that the proposed takeover can now gather momentum - if the proposed investors are still interested.

Holy shit.

Took them long enough though to get round to doing something about it. I thought a complaint had been filed with them from the Trust or someboday years back.

Can East Fife be drawn into this????.

As KK says = East Fife are not under investigation.

If I was Neil Rankine , I would sell all the shares either I or my proxies held, get what I could for the shares,and enjoy life to the full.

East Fife are not under investigation at this time but can this investigation lead to others?.

Interesting timing. We've all known the situation for some years now, and expect the SFA have been well aware. The document in question goes back to last year.

But the SFA choose now to bring this up. Right in the middle of changing compliance officers.

Perhaps they chose the close season because Livi and Dumbarton are in the same league? The best time being when they haven't taken any points off each other. Or maybe they just wanted a wee test case so the old boy can run the new boy through the procedures.

Anyone remember Brown McMaster?

Draw your own conclusions. Murray said Rankine was involved previously and he clearly still is involved according to the above. The board were/are well aware.

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