Mandaric charged with tax evasion

LONDON: Milan Mandaric, the former chairman of Portsmouth, was on Tuesday charged with two counts of tax evasion relating to his time in charge of the Premier League club.

England's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced Mandaric, now chairman of Leicester, had been ordered to appear before City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on Feb 11 in connection with a payment of $ 295,000 to another person via a bank account in Monaco.

Mandaric was first informed of the impending charges last month, at which point his solicitors confirmed that the changes related to monies paid to former Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp.