DUBAI (Reuters) - A former managing director of English Championship club Leeds United has been arrested in Dubai on charges of embezzling 23.7 million dirhams ($6.45 million) from an investment bank he used to work for, the emirate’s police force said in a statement.
David Haigh, who until March was deputy chief executive of Dubai-based GFH Capital, a unit of Bahrain’s Gulf Finance House, has been referred to Dubai’s public prosecutor for trial.
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