Everton paid £30m in interest to lender with links to tax exile, documents suggest

Exclusive: Charges relate to 225m debt with Rights & Media Funding, with records suggesting a trail leading to Michael Tabor

Everton has paid about 30m in interest charges to an opaque lender associated with a tax exile, corporate records suggest.

The charges appear to have reached about 438,000 a week, according to the troubled Premier League club's most recent set of accounts, a figure more than three times the reported wages of the Everton and England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.