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Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg has been terminated as the director of one of Trump's golf courses in Scotland

Thomas Colson,Jacob Shamsian   

Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg has been terminated as the director of one of Trump's golf courses in Scotland
  • Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was terminated from one of Trump's Scotland golf courses.
  • The termination followed a 15-count indictment against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization.
  • Weisselberg's attorneys didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, was terminated as the director and controller of one of former President Donald Trump's golf courses in Scotland a week after the executive and the company were charged with tax crimes.

A notice filed on Thursday with Companies House, the UK registry of private companies, showed that Weisselberg had been terminated as a director of Trump International Golf Club Scotland, a holding company that owns Trump's Aberdeenshire golf resort, Trump International Golf Links.

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He was also terminated as a "person with significant control," a designation for an individual with influence over how a company is run, another notice said.

Trump's sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr. remain directors of the company, and Trump Jr. is now the sole person with significant control. Donald Trump resigned as a director in January 2017, when he became president, Companies House records showed.

Weisselberg was appointed as one of four directors of the company in 2006, when Trump purchased the land in Aberdeenshire that he turned into the luxury golf resort.

Eric Trump remains the sole director of Trump's other Scottish golf company, Golf Recreation Scotland.

On July 1, prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office announced a 15-count indictment against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization alleging a wide-ranging tax-fraud scheme that involved Weisselberg dodging taxes on $1.7 million in personal income.

Weisselberg and the Trump Organization pleaded not guilty to the charges. A special-grand-jury investigation into the Trump Organization's finances is ongoing.

Prosecutors are seeking to "flip" Weisselberg into cooperating in their investigation, which is also examining whether the company misrepresented its finances in order to pay little in taxes while obtaining favorable rates for insurance and bank loans.

Attorneys for Weisselberg and a representative for the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment about Weisselberg's termination from Trump International Golf Club Scotland.

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