Tottenham manager Harry Rednapp's wife was 'hysterical' when police made a dawn raid on his house The raid was part of Operation Apprentice, an investigation by City of London Police into matters "completely unrelated" to the current prosecution. The court heard that Redknapp was arrested and interviewed by police at Chichester Police station following the raid, but was not asked about offshore accounts or the current allegations at any stage. Redknapp said the first he knew of a suggestion that he had evaded tax using the "Rosie 47" Monaco account was when he was contacted by Rob Beasley, a reporter from the News of the World, in February 2009 on the eve of the Carling Cup final between Tottenham and Manchester United. Redknapp said he was not aware that Beasley was recording the conversation, and that he had contacted lawyers Schillings to try and prevent the newspaper publishing a story. "I didn't want to wake up Sunday morning and head for the cup final with Tottenham, in my first season with them, walking down with the players and see Rob Beasley writing some story that wasn't true to start with," he said. Beasley's story was not published until October 2009, but the court was told that when Redknapp was re-interviewed by police four months earlier, in June 2009, they were in posasession of transcripts of the conversation with the newspaper reporter. They also had transcripts of Redknapp's interview with the Quest investigation into football corruption. Redknapp said that police did not mention that they had the transcripts either at his June interview, or at a further interview in October 2009.