The £40million compensation paid to ex- Rangers directors over botched prosecution attempts was 40 times higher than England’s entire annual bill to settle similar cases.
Former justice secretary Kenny MacAskill has demanded an explanation for why Crown Office officials in Scotland agreed to pay the eye-watering taxpayer -funded sums after receiving comparable statistics from the Crown Prosecution Service in London.
Finance experts David Whitehouse and Paul Clark were wrongly arrested in 2014 and lawyers acting for the Crown Office later admitted the prosecutions, which related to the financial collapse and sale of Rangers, had been “malicious”.
