16-11-2014, 13:24
I think most of our fans want to see the guilty parties brought to justice. How it affects the current company - if at all - remains to be seen, but there are a lot of links you'd need to make between the fraud and the eventual transfer to Charles Green's company which would seem to be very much broken. For example, if you assume Whyte and D&P conspired to buy the company fraudulently, put it in administration to clear the debt and resecure it for Whyte (as Whyte seemed to think), that link is broken when D&P said there was no way Whyte could remain as owner. Then if you try to bring Green into it, the problem there is the recorded conversations between Whyte and Green which made it clear Green had approached Whyte well after the company was put in administration just to try to get his shares. As far as I can see there's nothing to suggest the administration process and sale of assets weren't all totally legit, even if Green did pull a con job on Whyte during the process, albeit one that didn't go anywhere as Whyte's shares weren't required in the end.
I'm pretty sure D&P's conduct during the admin until BDO took over the show will be under close scrutiny from the police, but the previous investigations by the firm itself and regulators didn't turn up anything untoward. Any wrongdoing was carried out by a separate firm prior to it becoming part of D&P. Also worth remembering that D&P were the ones who first brought the case against Withey/Collier Bristow for the fraud.
I'm pretty sure D&P's conduct during the admin until BDO took over the show will be under close scrutiny from the police, but the previous investigations by the firm itself and regulators didn't turn up anything untoward. Any wrongdoing was carried out by a separate firm prior to it becoming part of D&P. Also worth remembering that D&P were the ones who first brought the case against Withey/Collier Bristow for the fraud.