Ricksen ordered to reveal finances

Rangers legend Fernando Ricksen has been ordered to come clean about his finances to his ex-wife.

Ricksen, who is battling incurable motor neurone disease, must divulge all of his financial secrets to ex-wife Graciela. Under Dutch law, if a members of a divorcing couple are found to have hidden assets from each other they lose all of them.

Last night Graciela, 40, said she was delighted with the judge’s ruling.

The row focuses on money the former Dutch internationalist earned in four lucrative years at Russian club Zenit St Petersburg between 2006 and 2010.

His legal team have claimed during the bitter divorce battle that there is no money left from the estimated £4 million he earned during his time in Russia. But lawyers for Graciela say that is “highly unlikely”.

Now a judge has demanded Ricksen hand over a financial dossier detailing his assets to ex-wife Graciela’s legal team.

Last night Graciela said: “For years he has refused to provide information about our finances. If he had shared the information, this would have been long behind us.

“It is still not clear how many bank accounts he has. I may have someone look into accounts in other countries. I cannot and do not want to disclose anything else, because I would like to keep that private for now.”

The judge has also ordered Graciela to hand over her financial records amid claims she took £650,000 from a joint account she had with Ricksen.

Last week, Ricksen, 38, said the stress surrounding the court saga was driving him to an early grave.

The star, who has since remarried and has a young daughter, said: “Unnecessary stress will only speed up the symptoms which will result finally in my death.

“I’m fighting to delay it and she doesn’t think or care about that.”