Portsmouth’s Storrie charged with tax evasion

Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie has been charged with tax evasion.

Storrie has been accused with hiding a sign-on fee for midfielder Amdy Faye by paying it straight into the player’s bank account when he moved from Auxerre for £1.5million in 2003.

The Pompey boss will appear at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on November 16 to face the charges which relate to the club paying Faye a £250,000 signing-on fee on which tax and national insurance was not paid.

It has also come to the surface that money was paid straight into the account of agent Willie McKay, who is also being questioned by police.

Storrie will now try to clear his name over the latest charges after being informed two weeks ago of the decision to prosecute him after a wider investigation by City of London Police was undertaken.

He was one of nine football executives questioned by police, all of whom denied any wrongdoing.