FORMER Rangers finance director Brian Stockbridge says he is happy to co-operate with the police investigation into the acquisition by the Sevco consortium of the club assets.
Mr Stockbridge, who is now chief executive of London-based financial advisers International Financial Strategic Associates, has strenuously rejected claims that he is being sought by police in connection with the alleged fraudulent takeover of the club in 2012.
The former Rangers executive, who held the purse strings at Ibrox for a year and a half and for the whole of former chief executive Charles Green’s involvement at the club, says he has already assisted the police investigation into the alleged fraudulent takeover of the club by Craig Whyte the previous year.
However, he says he has not been contacted by the police in relation to the investigation into the Sevco acquisition and its aftermath.
Four men were charged last week, including former Rangers owner Craig Whyte and Mr Green, in connection with the Sevco consortium’s purchase of liquidated assets after the oldco went into administration.
The men appointed as administrators of the club in 2012, Paul Clark and David Whitehouse of accountancy firm Duff and Phelps, also appeared in court.
Mr Stockbridge says he contacted a procurator-fiscal to establish whether officers were trying to get in touch with him regarding the case and “it has been confirmed that this is categorically not the case”.
“I have a telephone. The police know the number. If they want to speak to me I am delighted to help out where I can, of course. Nobody has contacted me,” he said.
“The police are not looking for me. If they wanted to they could come to my house. There’s people there. They could phone me.
“Police spoke to me ages and ages ago when they were looking           at the Craig Whyte thing, but I wasn’t involved in it.
“I didn’t get involved in the acquisition of the club. I only ever met Craig Whyte once in my           entire life. I never spoke with him, or dealt with him or any of his cohorts after that.
“I wasn’t involved in the               acquisition of the club from Craig Whyte. There’s a huge frenzy that has been whipped up on this at           the moment. I would be more than happy to co-operate. I have gone to the cost of getting counsel to speak to the courts in Scotland to find out if there is any truth to it.
“They have come back to me and said, no, the police are not hunting me in the UK and they are not  hunting me in America.”
Police Scotland would not discuss Mr Stockbridge’s comments, only saying: “Inquiries are ongoing.”
Mr Whyte bought Rangers from Sir David Murray for £1 in May 2011 but, by the summer of 2012, Mr Green had taken charge at Ibrox after his Sevco consortium bought the assets after the club oldco went into administration and liquidation.
He stepped down as chief executive in 2013.
Mr Stockbridge resigned from the club in January last year.
The executive who came under pressure from fans in previous months despite paying back a £200,000 bonus, was said at the time to have left the board with no pay-off or bonus.
But it was said at the time that his annual wage of about £200,000 had been paid up under the terms of his exit.
Mr Whyte has appeared in court charged with fraud following an investigation into the purchase, in 2011, of Rangers.
He and others who were charged with fraudulent activity were released on bail as proceedings continue.