Reports at the weekend suggest that an alleged £1.5m loan by Chris Hutcheson from under-fire Gordon Ramsay Holdings was to blame for his departure as chief executive.
Though not illegal, it is believed that Ramsay has taken exception to the sum being taken – especially after he was forced to use £5.76m of his own fortune to bolster his ailing restaurant empire.
A source told the Daily Mail he only discovered that his father-in-law had taken the loan from the company in recent weeks.
The unnamed source said: “Gordon just couldn’t understand what had been going on.”
Daily Mail, p26 & 27