Harry charged with tax offences

Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has been charged with two counts of cheating the public revenue.

Redknapp has been accused of a £40,000 tax evasion relating to his time in charge of Portsmouth.

The 62-year-old had two spells at Fratton Park and left for the second time in 2008 to take the managerial reins at Spurs.

Earlier in the week, the Premier League club's former owner, Milan Mandaric, was also charged with two counts of cheating the public revenue.

Redknapp attended Bishopsgate police station in London on Thursday where he was formerly charged.

A statement from the Crown Prosecution Service read: ''Henry (Harry) Redknapp, the former football manager of Portsmouth City Football Club, has today been charged with two counts of cheating the public revenue.

''The CPS Revenue and Customs Division decided there was sufficient evidence and it was in the public interest to charge Mr Redknapp.

"He is jointly charged with Milan Mandaric, the former chairman of Portsmouth City Football Club, following an investigation by the City of London Police and HM Revenue & Customs.

''The charges concern two payments, totalling 295,000 US dollars, from Mr Mandaric to Mr Redknapp via a bank account in Monaco, evading the tax and national insurance contributions due between 1 April 2002 and 28 November 2007.

"The payments were in relation to Mr Redknapp's employment. He will appear at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on 11 February.''