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Peter Storrie charged with tax evasion

Storrie is accused of defrauding Britain's tax office by concealing the payment of a signing-on fee made to Senegalese midfielder Amdy Faye when he joined from French club Auxerre, an RCPO spokesman said.

The full charge said that he "cheated the public revenue" by arranging for the fee to Faye to be paid via bank accounts of an agent, William McKay, in order to evade the payment of tax and national insurance contributions.

Storrie is to appear at London's City of Westminster Magistrates Court on November 16.

"At the time negotiations to acquire this player were concluded, Mr Storrie was on honeymoon," the statement said.

"Mr Storrie will defend the allegations in the strongest possible terms and is entirely confident that he will be exonerated not only of the allegation of cheating the public revenue, but any suggestion that anything untoward took place concerning any transfer dealings in which he was concerned."