Leeds chairman Bates reported to police over programme
http://www.soccerway.com/news/2007/March/05/leeds-chairman-bates-reported-to-police-over-programme
Written by: AFP
Leeds chairman Ken Bates, seen here in January 2006, has been reported
to the police after he published the address of a former director of the
English Championship club.
Leeds chairman Ken Bates, seen here in January 2006, has been
reported to the police after he published the address of a former
director of the English Championship club.
LEEDS, England (AFP) - Leeds chairman Ken Bates has been reported to the
police after he published the address of a former director of the
English Championship club.
Melvyn Levi is involved in a dispute with Bates over the legality of a
share issue, and has complained to the police after the former Chelsea
owner published Levi's address in a Leeds match programme.
In the article, Bates claims that Levi has cost the club investors, as
well as damaging the club with his legal dispute.
Bates wrote: "At this difficult time we should all be pulling together,
but have an enemy within, Melvyn Levi.
"Perhaps you would like to ask him to justify his behaviour, which is
damaging to Leeds' prospects of advancement. Mr Levi lives at.....'
Levi complained to the authorities after Leeds' 3-2 defeat to Sheffield
Wednesday at the weekend, and said: "I will not allow Bates to get away
with what he did.
"He is encouraging fans to come around to my house after describing me
in the worst possible terms.
"It's totally disgraceful. I can't understand why he's singling me out.
I haven't spoken to him for more than a year.
"He should concentrate on sorting out the many problems within the club,
rather that persecute me in language that the Nazis would have used."
Bates is quoted in the Daily Mail as responding in typically defiant
terms: "Levi is lucky I didn't put in his telephone number. I'm still
waiting for his writ. If he's got a problem, he should speak to me direct."
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