HARRY FACING NEW TAX QUIZ

HARRY REDKNAPP is set to be quizzed AGAIN this week by Revenue and Customs over his offshore accounts.

Lawyers and investigators are expected to hold a summit meeting tonight to agree on further lines of questioning.

It is hoped this latest grilling will help finally complete the two-year probe started by the City of London Police.

Former Portsmouth boss Redknapp, who strenuously denies any wrong-doing, is being investigated over "tax issues" alongside Pompey chief executive Peter Storrie and former chairman Milan Mandaric.

On Friday, Leicester City chairman Mandaric was interviewed by police when he answered his bail.

Interviews with Redknapp and Storrie are to follow within the next few days. Spurs boss Redknapp was arrested in November 2007 as part of a corruption inquiry.

The investigation has focused on a number of transfer deals at Portsmouth and Birmingham.

But earlier this year the Crown Prosecution Service handed the files to HMRC, indicating the investigation related to tax matters rather than fraud.

Redknapp, 62, is expected to be invited with his lawyers to attend another meeting with the HMRC.

A source said: "He has been told he is likely to be called in for further questioning next week.

"He is keen to get this whole thing cleared up so he can move on and put the ordeal behind him."

The latest development in the corruption probe may have prompted a whispering campaign that Redknapp was poised to leave Spurs. He has denied the rumours, branding them "just a load of rubbish."

On Friday bookies slashed the odds on Redknapp being the next Premier League boss sacked from 50-1 to 5-4 ON despite Spurs enjoying their best start to a season for 50 years.

Redknapp, Mandaric and Storrie were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.

The three are still waiting to learn their fate, although a final decision is expected in the next month.

A source said: "It would be foolish to rule out charges."

The Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office is reviewing evidence in relation to the trio before deciding whether to bring criminal proceedings.

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