Blackpool Football Club has today, following a board meeting, suspended Director Valeri Belokon and removed him from any associated duties with immediate effect.



The Club, in receipt of a judgement from the Paris Court of Appeal of the French Republic, dated 21 February 2017, holds major concerns about the damning findings that two banks in Latvia and Kyrgyzstan, founded and/or owned by Valeri Belokon, had been involved in large scale money laundering and/or tax evasion.

Kaspars Varpins, Mr Belokon’s representative at board level, was provided many opportunities to explain the judgement at today’s board meeting, however Mr Varpins refused to comment or give any explanation whatsoever for the judgement, leading to legal advice being sought and this course of action being taken.

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