Ex-Rangers director wins £600,000 damages over malicious prosecution
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Imran Ahmad is a former commercial director of Rangers
A former director of Rangers Football Club has been awarded over £600,000 in damages for malicious prosecution.
Imran Ahmad was charged in connection with fraud relating to the purchase of the Ibrox club's assets in 2015.
However, the charges against the club's former commercial director were eventually dropped.
The payout from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service brings the total compensation bill relating to the Rangers case to more than £52m.
In 2021, Mr Ahmad and the former Rangers chief executive Charles Green received a public apology from the lord advocate who said the pair should not have been prosecuted and that the prosecutions were malicious.
Mr Green later received damages of £6.3m.
Former administers David Whitehouse and Paul Clarke were awarded £10.5m each and also given an apology.
The company they worked for also received damages of more than £15m.
A total of seven people were arrested in relation to the purchase of Rangers by businessman Craig Whyte in 2012 and the club's subsequent administration.
The charges against six were eventually dropped and former owner Mr Whyte was eventually cleared of fraud after trial.
BBC Scotland has learned that Mr Ahmad offered to settle his case with an apology in 2019 in a bid to clear his name and move on but the Crown Office opted to fight the claims of wrongful arrest.
A judge-led inquiry into the failings of the fraud probe over the sale of Rangers is to be held once all related legal proceedings have concluded.