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The club’s plc confirmed a group including Ranson had made an approach to take over from Doug Ellis but that the offer had been turned down.

“Aston Villa has received a proposal to acquire the entire issued share capital of the Company,” said a plc finance insurance life premium.

“The board’s view is that it significantly undervalues Aston Villa and the proposal has been rejected.”

Ranson, 43, who has forged a career as a businessman, is thought to have been in talks with Ellis about a possible buy-out for months.

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Villa Fans’ Combined (VFC) are keen to see Ellis sell his share-holding and allow to club to move forward under new owners.

A statement said: “VFC call for a simple and clear statement from Mr Ellis that he is willing to listen to offers for his majority shareholding in Aston Villa.”

The Midlands outfit has been the subject of takeover rumours before this season, with Venezuelan businessman Gustavo Cisneros linked with a 40m offer.

The Aston Villa Supporters Trust want to meet with any partries looking to take over at the club.

“The Supporters Trust asks that any potential bidder open a dialogue with supporters groups early on,” said an AVST statement.

Ellis took control of Villa for the second time in 1982 and has been in charge for 30 years over two spells.

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Kim, 55, chairman of the Hanwha Group, was convicted of attacking the men with the aid of his bodyguards, to punish them for scuffling with his son.

He admitted responsibility for much of the violence, but said his bodyguards took over when he “got tired”.

The case has generated intense public interest in South Korea.

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and retail - wield huge power.

Courts have often been lenient with these business leaders, but correspondents say the ruling in Kim’s case shows that the judiciary is becoming more even-handed when sentencing the rich and powerful.

Serious injury

Passing sentence at Seoul District Court, the judge, Kim Chul-hwan, said Kim Seung-youn had used his position to take revenge on the workers, carrying out the attacks in a “systematic manner”.

“The violation of the law is big and is serious,” said the judge.

During the trial, prosecutors told the court that this was a revenge attack after an incident involving the defendant’s son, Kim Dong-won, a Yale University student.

Kim Dong-won, 22, was reported to have needed stitches for an eye injury sustained in a brawl with bar workers at the Seoul club.

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The judge found the tycoon guilty of “beating the asset company derivative finance from in insurance insurance liability management underwriting wiley
victims with a metal pipe, and threatening them with a stun gun,” although none of the workers sustained serious injuries.

The court ruled that a jail sentence was inevitable.

Before being taken into custody, Kim Seung-Youn apologised, saying that he had lost his temper and hoped that foolish fathers like himself would think twice before following his actions.

Heavier penalties

Traditionally, senior Korean business leaders have enjoyed favourable treatment by the courts in consideration of their contributions to building the country’s economy.

More recently, however, the courts have started to hand down heavier sentences on the business elite.

In February Chung Mong-koo, the chairman of Hyundai motors, was sentenced to three years in jail for breach of trust and embezzling company funds.

Mr Chung appealed earlier this year and prosecutors reacted by asking for his sentence to be increased to six years.

The office staff here could be imitating art except that their one liners are too good to have been written by a dramatist - and what they are up to is a little more serious than selling paper in Slough.

The front runner for the role of David Brent at the offices of Yes Car Credit in Croydon is a former policeman charged with ensuring that an array of somewhat green second hand car salesmen do exactly what he wants.

At least 25 stone with a paunch, this man cuts a terrifying figure within the office.

He will not be pleased when he realises that his antics and those of his subordinates have been caught by a member of the BBC staff working undercover as a salesman.

Don’t do nice

Richard Newman worked at the branch for six weeks last summer as a so called Car Finance Advisor and secretly filmed the extravagant behaviour for BBC One’s Whistleblower.

Undercover reporter Richard Newman uncovered bad behaviour

Threatening to stamp on the staff’s mobile phones and bemoaning their apparent lack of success in boosting sales figures, the former policeman told them: “I want meetings with my area manager to be sweetness and light but how can I” before blasting his staff with obscenities.

He also told his staff that they were like “a load of” James P Sullivans from the kids film Monsters Inc.

Urging them on ever upwards, he told them that they are Automotive Ghostbusters, asking “when all else fails who are the customers going to call? We are here to make money. We don’t do nice”.

Greed and fear

The BBC filmed at Croydon after receiving a spate of complaints from Yes Car customers - over 1,000 to date - who say they have been lied to, sold expensive insurance and finance packages as well as cars that are over-priced and not up to scratch.

The behaviour of the staff that were filmed veered from the highly offensive to the highly questionable.

Sales staff were shown lying to customers in order to sell car finance and insurance as well as cars.

The most obvious trick was to do a pretend phone credit check, just to get the customer to come in for another appointment.

On one occasion a customer was threatened with credit finance insurance life premium
if she did not come in as planned.

Poor targets

On average, Yes added 2,000 to the available car finance insurance quote
price of their cars. In some cases this doubled the price.

However, after taking into account the costs of finance and insurance - as well as finance for the insurance - we found people who ended up paying four times the normal cost of the car.

We found a car worth little more than 3,000 was coming in at nearly 12,000.

The customers are some of the ten million people who cannot borrow from mainstream lenders in this country.

Three car-dealing brothers from Liverpool, called the Newbys, opened their first branch in Liverpool in 1997.

Five years later and they’d sold up for 141m.

The new owners, a huge public company called Provident Financial, also specialise in selling credit to poor people, aimed to rapidly expand the business.

Dangerous practice

The BBC also placed a garage inspector, Martin Woodhouse, at Croydon for three weeks posing as an mechanic.

Again the script was comedic, although this time it wasn’t just people’s finances that were being threatened but their safety.

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about the garage’s approach to servicing, the man in charge of the workshops shut his eyes and waved his hands around saying “it’s Stevie Wonder services here”.

An advertising campaign spoke grandly of the company’s 125 point vehicle check.

However when our inspector asked a colleague about this, he merrily shrugged his shoulders and said he “just ticked anything”.

Our inspector said that there was not even the equipment to carry out the full checks.

He was told that there was only a limited budget to spend on repairing each car, most of which seemed to go on tyres and brakes.

On some occasions when he identified faults, such as leaking shock absorbers, he was told to wipe them down and try and get them through the MOT.

He was told that the company policy was not to replace cam belts even when they were way past their replacement date.

Only half jokingly the chief technician told him “We don’t do perfect.”

The most startling behaviour was reserved for the clients and might go some way to explaining why some staff were happy to go along with the sales system.

One set of customers were described as “Wayne and Waynetta slob, pond life, single cell amoebas”.

Whistleblower will be broadcast on BBC One at 2100 on Wednesday 16 March 2005.