The owner of the UK football team the Rangers recently outed his financial adviser as the owner of Bluebird Films, Paul Chaplin. This is a big deal because right now this guy Craig Whyte is under a lot of pressure in the media over what they are calling “tax dodging”.
Craig Whyte is apparently one rich mother fucker. He not only owns a UK football team but also he owns his own fucking castle.
Recently Whyte said he was confident that the Rangers football club would win the tax tribunal case against them (a potential £49 million tax liability which is more than $77 million is US dollars) and there would be no liability for Rangers to pay. [source]
So how did this guy get out of his big tax bill? According to this recent article in the Sun, it might have been in part thanks to the advice of Bluebird Films owner Paul Chaplin. The Sun story reveals that Paul Chaplin himself faced previous charges of pension fund fraud and in April 2005 he was suspended from practice for three years for conduct unbefitting a solicitor. Solicitor is what they call lawyers in the England.
On a good note the Sun mentions specifically Katwoman XXX. This no doubt brought in a large boost in sales for the movie. Bluebird Films can’t be unhappy about that.
Craig Whyte advisor is a porn star
RANGERS chief Craig Whyte’s finance guru last night told of his double life rubbing shoulders with loaded clients one day — and bonking busty babes in porn films the next.
High-flying tax advisor Paul Baxendale-Walker counts the tycoon among a string of blue-chip customers.
Red-faced Whyte insisted he was in the dark about Baxendale-Walker’s mucky moonlighting — but the suave moneyman was happy to brag about his raunchy screen antics.
Oxford-educated Baxendale-Walker, 47, told The Scottish Sun: “Craig Whyte is a current client of mine. I’m advising him on business matters that are nothing to do with Rangers.
“I do what I do. I’m a professional. I’m a tax advisor, I save people lots of money.
“But I also do porn films. I do all sorts of roles — director, actor and producer.”Of course I appear in the movies. Who wouldn’t want to? What is the point in owning a BMW if you don’t drive the car?
“We go worldwide making and producing movies.
“I don’t have a wife or kids, I don’t do drugs. I just have fun. If anyone thinks that is a problem, well that’s up to them.”
The London City slicker’s law firm, which also has offices in Glasgow, offers a range of legal and financial advice to “some of the world’s wealthiest families”.
He also runs porn film-makers Bluebird Productions — and stars in his own raunchy movies.
In his latest naughty flick — a Batman spoof called Katwoman — he plays one of the lead characters The Jo-Kerr.
The two-hour movie shows him romping with a string of stunning models.
Most of his sexploits are too graphic for a family newspaper.
But in one scene the self-styled stud has a FOURSOME with a latex-clad Katwoman, another woman and a second man dressed as Batman character Two-Face.
At one point THREE scantily-clad blondes perform a sex act on a clearly delighted Baxendale-Walker.He also romps with a blonde Wonder Woman and a girl in a leopard-print outfit.
The DVD blurb says “This is an action-packed, sex-filled adventure. It’s not just chases, fights, explosions and action, It’s also some of the hottest sex and group sex from the nastiest villains and heroes around!!”
Some of Baxendale-Walker’s hundreds of other titles include: Ello, Ello Lust in France, Footballers Wives: First Half and Sugar Daddy.
He’s even won Best Foreign Director at the porn industry’s equivalent of the Oscars for the last three years.
Baxendale-Walker said he advised Whyte on a number of issues but declined to go into specific detail.
And he backed the Ibrox supremo over the flak he has fielded since he plunged Rangers into administration.Baxendale-Walker said: “I have a lot of respect for him as a businessman and individual. I can’t go into how long I’ve known Mr Whyte but I’ve witnessed the muckraking about him.
“Here is the guy who has come along to the crash site and is doing his best to tidy up.
“I think it is unfair that Craig Whyte is receiving all the muck given it wasn’t him that created this situation.”
Baxendale-Walker also claimed that former Gers chief Sir David Murray should be held to account. He said: “Here’s Sir David Murray saying this is all disappointing what is happening at Rangers.
“But it was under his chairmanship that Rangers allegedly used a tax scheme improperly.”
Baxendale-Walker has been credited with being the mastermind behind a variety of tax avoidance schemes — including the Employee Benefits Trust which triggered the probe into Rangers’ finances. In 2000 he was charged by the Serious Fraud Office after an inquiry into the pension fund of Glasgow engineering group Balfron.
But the trial was called off in June 2002 after a judge cited an abuse of the legal process.
In April 2005 he was suspended from practice for three years for conduct unbefitting a solicitor.
Last night a spokesman for Mr Whyte revealed the tycoon was introduced to Baxendale-Walker by mutual friends, adding: “He has no knowledge of his ‘sideline’.”