Rangers probe gets underway without Ibrox club's co-operation The probe set up to investigate the way Rangers paid their players got underway this morning as the Ibrox club refused to co-operate with the proceedings. First meeting of panel takes place at Hampden. Rangers could be stripped of titles between 2000 and 2011. Newco chief executive Charles Green yesterday claimed that the SPL has no jurisdiction, following Rangers" demotion to the Irn-Bru Third Division. Today's hearing began at 10am, as the three-man panel chaired by Lord Nimmo Smith steps up its investigation into transactions from the Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) scheme run by former Rangers owner Sir David Murray. Rangers could be stripped of league titles if found guilty of making undeclared payments to players between 2000 and 2011. The meeting will finish around 6pm due to Scotland's World Cup qualifier against Macedonia at the national stadium later tonight. The commission will continue talks tomorrow if need be, but no representative of Rangers will take part after Green yesterday said the club would snub the hearings. Authority Green, whose company bought the business and assets of the soon-to-be-liquidated Rangers for £5.5million in June, said: "Neither the SPL, nor its commission, has any legal power or authority over the club because it is not in the SPL." This should have been done when the SPL had jurisdiction, and they didn't do it. You are allowed to have an EBT, you have to disclose it, and of course there is a whole raft of information that when these EBTs were being used they were disclosed. They were in the accounts, it's public knowledge, Rangers were a public company, you can go on the internet and see the disclosures. Green added more intrigue to the issue when he claimed in a BBC Radio Scotland interview that "more than two" SPL clubs have used EBTs but would "rather not say" who they were, before adding: "I have put my hand up and they should do the same." Green also suggested that Rangers may not seek re-entry to the top flight even if they succeed with a string of promotions. He said: "Unless the SPL welcome us with open arms, why would we go back there? Ten clubs voted Rangers out of that league, what makes you think they would want Rangers back in? "It begs the question, will the league still be there in three years" time?"