Flyglobespan 'move to recover £35m'
Administrators for Flyglobespan are taking legal action against the company that handled its online ticket sales, who allegedly owe the collapsed travel firm around £35 million.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have requested that transactions company E-Clear is put into administration unless it can prove it has the money reportedly owed to Flyglobespan.
Thousands of holidaymakers were left stranded in Egypt, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus when Flyglobespan went into administration in December.
A spokesperson for E-Clear told the BBC that the company had asked for, and not yet received, any proof of the PWC claim that they had witheld £35m, £20m of it for past flights, from Flyglobespan.
E-Clear had pledged to work with the administrators to "clarify and address the various complexities around the airline's financial position, so that matters may be resolved as quickly as possible", after the travel firm went into administration.
Following the collapse, Scotland's Finance Secretary John Swinney called for a probe into what happened.
A spokesman for Mr Swinney said: "This is a matter for the administrator, but we hope that it will lead to the recovery of the money which was due to Flyglobespan and the thousands of its customers affected by its collapse."