CHARGES against former Rangers administrators in a multi-million pound fraud case have been dropped.

David Whitehouse and Paul Clark face trial alongside former owner Craig Whyte, 44, ex-chief executive Charles Green, 62, and three other men over a number of charges.

The pair had the charges against them deserted by prosecutors during a preliminary hearing on Friday. 

Clark and Whitehouse still face two charges.

Prosecutors withdrew six of 15 charges in the alleged fraud case over Rangers today as they made amendments to the indictment.

Among the allegations dropped by the Crown was a charge that the joint administrators, David Whitehouse and Paul Clark, attempted to pervert the course of justice.

They also withdrew a charge that the pair along with former Rangers owner Craig Whyte, Gary Withey and David Grier agreed to do something that they knew or suspected or ought reasonably to have known or suspected would enable or further the commission of serious organised crime.

Whitehouse (50) and Clark (51) were also taken out of an amended charge which now alleges that Whyte (45), Withey (51) and Grier (54) conspired together between January 1 in 2010 and May 6 in 2011 to obtain a controlling stake in the shareholding of the Ibrox club.

A further serious organised crime allegation that Whyte, Whitehouse, Clark and former chief executive of Rangers Charles Green (62) participated in a conspiracy to buy the business and assets of The Rangers Football Club plc in 2012 from the administrators at significantly below the true market value was also dropped.

All the men continue to face charges in the case in which a preliminary hearing is taking place at the High Court in Edinburgh before Lord Bannatyne.